(RFE/RL) 18 November 2005 -- The Russian military announced today that the three soldiers suspected of killing Chechen civilians earlier this week have confessed to the crime.
18 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch group today accused Russian security forces of using ill treatment to coerce confessions from suspects detained over last month's militant raid on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkariya.
18 November 2005 -- The prime minister of Russia's southern republic of Chechnya has been hospitalized in serious, but stable condition following a car crash in Moscow.
18 November 2005 -- The prime minister of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government has been hospitalized following a car crash in Moscow.
17 November 2005 -- A senior election official says security has been boosted in Chechnya where polling stations are due to open in 10 days for the republic's parliamentary election.
16 November 2005 -- Four suspects in two failed assassination attempts against the deputy prime minister of Russia's southern republic of Daghestan went today on trial in the regional capital of Makhachkala.
Chechen politician Akhayat Idogov at the European Pariament (RFE/RL) Pro-independence Chechens had a rare opportunity today to rally support for their cause in the European Union. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) representing countries surrounding the Baltic Sea received Akhayat Idogov in Strasbourg. Idogov is the head of the foreign relations committee of what the European Union considers to be the last freely elected Chechen parliament. Idogov said he was received sympathetically in Strasbourg. And an MEP instrumental in organizing Idogov's visit said deputies supportive of the Chechen independence movement will attempt to formally raise the issue in the European Parliament.
Officials say some 95 militants died as a result of the 13 October attacks (AFP) 14 November 2005 -- Police officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkariya say militants behind last month's attack in the city of Nalchik aimed to spark a wider war throughout the North Caucasus.
14 November 2005 -- A court in the Russian city of Nizhnii Novgorod today ruled against a Justice Ministry order aimed at closing down a Chechen advocacy group.
(RFE/RL) 12 November 2005 -- Interior Ministry officials in Chechnya say they have killed an alleged militant after he had refused to surrender during a standoff on the outskirts of Grozny.
(RFE/RL) 11 November 2005 -- Religious leaders in Russia's Northern Caucasus republic of Adygea today called upon their communities to help prevent sectarian violence by praying together later this month.
11 November 2005 -- A Russian prosecutor says a prominent Islamic scholar is suspected of instigating a militant raid in the North Caucasus last month.
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