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The Week in Brief: Feb 12 - Feb 18 2001

No major events.

The nephew of the Chechen president of CSKA Moscow soccer club was arrested on a suspicion of being a member of a criminal Chechen gang. The president of CSKA, Shakhrudi Dadakhanov, said that the arrest was part of a bid to oust him from his post because he was "of Chechen origin."

Chechen administration chief Akhmad Kadyrov established a public and economic security council and appointed Rudnik Dudayev its secretary.

Chechen warlord, Salaudin Temirbulatov, was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, torture and execurion of Russian servicemen

A total of 401,700 people fled their homes in Chechnya since 1999, most of whom are currently living in Chechnya (234,000), and Ingushetia (122,500). 80 percent of the displaced are women and children. – Russian Government

Foreign Minister Anna Lindh of Sweden, which holds the EU presidency, visited Moscow together with EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution that calls for a cease-fire in Chechnya and for an independent commission of inquiry to be set up "to look into allegations of war crimes committed by both sides in the conflict."

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) held its VI General Assembly in Tallinn, Estonia. The General Assembly was preceded by the conference "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples".

A group of Russian officers who extorted the so-called combat allowances from servicemen hired to fight in Chechnya on a contract basis was arrested in Nizhniy Novgorod.

The Union of Chechen Journalists was created in Moscow (independently on the Kremlin).

No major events.

The People in Need Foundation (PINF) and Danish Refugee Council (DRC) resumed their humanitrarian aid supplies on the territory of Chechnya suspended after the January 9 kidnapping of U.S. relief aid worker, Kennetk Gluck.