Summary of the main news related to the conflict in Chechnya.
Monday, Dec 3
Human rights NGOs, which requested to participate in investigation into crimes in Chechnya, will be allowed to do so on condition that such cooperation does not violate the existing legislation, announced Deputy General Prosecutor for Russia’s Southern Federal Region, Sergei Fridinskiy.
The European Commission announced that it had allocated another 7.5 million euro for assistance covering the most urgent humanitarian needs of internally displaced people, returnees and vulnerable groups in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Daghestan throughout the winter.
Colonel-General Gennady Troshev, the commander of the North Caucasus military district, removed Colonel Nikolai Sidorenko, the commandant of Argun, from his post due to a poor performance of his duties.
Tuesday, Dec 4
Rizvan Lоrsanov, a prominent Chechen political and public figure, who organised Russian-Chechen talks during the first war in Chechnya, was killed close to his home in the village of Novye Atagi, south of Grozny, after his car hit a radio-controlled mine.
Wednesday, Dec 5
No major events.
Thursday, Dec 6
The situation in refugee camps in Chechnya has worsened and the general situation in Chechnya has virtually remained on its previous level, said Lord Judd, head of a PACE delegation visiting Northern Caucasus from Dec 2 till 5, at a news conference in Moscow.
Friday, Dec 7
The operations in Chechnya must be completed by spring 2002, said Viktor Kazantsev, Russian President’s plenipotentiary in the Southern Federal District, against a backdrop of large deployment of Russian troops and heavy military equipment into southern Chechnya.
Saturday, Dec 8
Two workers of the office of the pro-Moscow prosecutor of Grozny, Akhmed Khamzatov and Alexander Leushin, were killed after their car hit a radio-controlled mine in the Chechen capital.
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