Summary of the main news related to the conflict in Chechnya.
Monday, Nov 26
Georgia accused Russia that its aircraft coming from Chechnya violated Georgian airspace and dropped several bombs on its territory. Russia denied the violation, claiming its aircraft operated only in Chechnya.
The United Nations appealled to governments to allocate nearly 32 million US dollars to help the victims of the humanitarian catastrophe in the North Caucasus, according to the Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for North Caucasus (Russian Federation) 2002 launched by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Colonel Said-Selim Peshkhoyev, a native Chechen and career FSB officer, has taken over his responsibilities as a head of the pro-Moscow Interior Ministry's Department for the Chechen Republic.
Tuesday, Nov 27
No major events.
Wednesday, Nov 28
Russian colonel Yuri Budanov, who had been accused of raping and killing 18-year-old Chechen girl Elza Kungayeva, was "not acting in the heat of passion", said professor Fyodor Kondryatev of the Serbsky State Scientific Centre of Social and Judicial Psychology, which had worked out an expert opinion for the court in charge of Budanov's case.
Thursday, Nov 29
Participants in the two-day consultation held in Strasbourg at the invitation of PACE’s Joint Working Group on Chechnya, who included representatives of the Russian State Duma, the pro-Moscow Chechen government and various Chechen NGOs and excluded representatives of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, announced they decided to set up a 13-member consultative council to "promote demilitarisation and democratic procedures in the Chechen Republic".
A young Chechen woman carried out an assassination attempt on the military commander of the Urus-Martan district, general Geydar Gadzhiev, blowing herself up near a group of Russian soldiers. Gadzhiyev, who was accused of abuses against civilians by locals, later died of his wounds.
Friday, Nov 30
Russian forces detained Chechen citizen of Arab origin Abu Sayakh in a special operation in Bachi-Yurt, east Chechnya. Abu Sayakh, who later died of wounds, was according to Russian sources an aide to field commander Khattab and according to Chechen sources a commander of lower rank.
Saturday, Dec 1
Deputy military prosecutor of the Combined Armed Forces in the Northern Caucasus, lieutenant-colonel Roman Grigoryan, was killed in Argun. According to Russian sources, Grigoryan was killed by Russian soldiers who opened fire at his car after it approached their check-point too quickly, while Chechen sources claimed Grigoryan was killed as a result of an operation of Chechen fighters.
Russian FSB accused Danish Refugee Council of distributing food especially to people supporting Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. -- ITAR-TASS.
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