The trial against Andrei Babitsky, Russian reporter working for Radio Liberty who was detained earlier this year and accused of using forged documents, started in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala
Tue, 3 Oct
Chechen field commander Isa Munayev, military commandant of Grozny at the beginning of the second war, was killed during fights in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.
Wed, 4 Oct
Over 160,000 Russian passports were issued to the inhabitants of Chechnya. – Russian State Statistical Committee
Thu, 5 Oct
A total of 2,472 Russian soldiers were killed, 7,076 wounded, and 26 are reported missing in the military action in Chechnya between Oct 1, 1999 and Oct 4, 2000. In the past week 20 soldiers were killed and 48 wounded. -- Manilov
A total of 124 unidentified bodies of civilians and Russian soldiers who died in the 1994-1996 war in Chechnya were finally burried in Grozny after being stored for four years in railway carriages in the Chechen capital.
Aslanbek Aslakhanov, a recently elected Chechnya’s deputy to the State Duma, accussed Russian federal forces of abuses and corruption and demanded their withdrawal, referring to the officially declared completion of the military stage of the anti-terrorist operations. – Radio Liberty
Fri, 6 Oct
A court in Makhachkala convicted Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky of using false documents and sentenced him to a fine of the equivalent of 470 $, but immediately granted him an amnesty under a previous parliamentary order. Babitsky said he would appeal to Dagestan's Supreme Court and, if need be, to the Russian Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Chechen police, now numbering 2,000, will not have 7,000 policemen as planned earlier but twice as more. -- Kadyrov
Sat, 7 Oct
Chechen General Baudi Bakuyev was killed in a figth in southern Chechnya.
In presenting his third autobiographical book on the Russian ORT television, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin said he felt responsible for the lost lives during the first war in Chechnya, which he, however, considered necessary.
Kadyrov arrived to Moscow to meet with Russian as well as Chechen representatives living in the Russian capital.
Sun, 8 Oct
Russian forces seized a TV videoarchive of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria consisting of several dozens of videotapes showing the life of the republic since 1995 till today. -- Interfax
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