Beslan Gantamirov, former mayor of the Chechen capital Grozny, was presented as the newly appointed chief federal inspector in the office of presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District by the head of the office, Viktor Kazantsev. Among other things, Gantamirov should coordinate the work on Chechnya’s new constitution.
Tuesday, June 19
Three car bombs exploded in the second largest Chechen town Gudermes, killing two civilians and one policeman, and injuring some three dozen others.
Wednesday, June 20
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov approved the establishment of federal state commercial company "Board for Building and Reconstruction Work in the Chechen Republic", which should implement federal programmes, and appointed Anatoly Popov its chief executive officer.
The head of the department for crisis situations in the Russian Ministry of Federation Affairs, Nationalities and Migration Policy, Vladimir Pavlenko, conceded that Chechen refugees worry to go back home for security reasons. - Interfax
Thursday, June 21
Several hundred civilians, mostly women and children, held a rally in the village Koshkeldy in the the Gudermes district, blocking the Rostov – Baku road and calling for the release of their relatives and countrymen detained after the explosions in Gudermes on June 19. Friday, June 22
In the middle of June 2001 the Russian Ministry of Federation Affairs, Nationalities and Migration Policy registered a total of 374,600 Chechen refugees, of whom over 225,700 lived in Chechnya itself, 136,100 in Ingushetia, 5,800 in the Stavropol region, 4,500 in Dagestan, and 2,400 in Northern Osetia, said deputy head of the ministry's department for crisis situations, Valery Movchan. - Interfax.
Saturday, June 23
No major events.
Sunday, June 24
Chechen field commander Arbi Barayev, who became ill-famed for kidnapping, was killed during a special operation carried out in recent days in Alkhan-Kala and its surroundings. – FSB
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