JUNE 2006

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 6/11/2006 10:03 AM
RIA Novosti
Militants' attack kills one, injures three troops in Chechnya

11/06/2006 11:39 GROZNY, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - A militants' attack has killed one and injured three federal troops in the troubled Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, the local law-enforcement authorities said Sunday.

On Saturday, at 01:10 p.m. Moscow time (09:10 a.m. GMT) gunmen opened fire at the Russian Defense Ministry's troops near the village of Bugaroi in the republic's southern Itum-Kala district, injuring two servicemen.

At 11:30 p.m. (07:30 p.m. GMT) Saturday, militants attacked interior troops on the outskirts of the village of Niki-Khita in the republic's southeastern Kurchaloi district, killing one soldier and wounding another.

There have been no reports about casualties among the militants.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060611/49336885.html

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 6/11/2006 3:21 PM
CHECHEN GUNMEN DISCUSS TRUCE;
Nobody knows who proposed or on what terms
Musa Muradov

NO TERRORIST ATTACKS DURING THE G8 SUMMIT?; The Chechen separatist
website reports that the federal authorities have proposed a truce for
the duration of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. Observers say the
separatists might accept the offer, but demand the body of Aslan
Maskhadov for burial in return. Official Grozny and Moscow
representatives deny any such deals with the guerrillas.

The Chechen separatist website maintains that the federal authorities
contacted Chechen ringleaders through an intermediary and asked them
to refrain from terrorist attacks in Chechnya and Russia (particularly
in Moscow and St. Petersburg) for the duration of the G8 summit. The
report doesn't specify whether the request was written or verbal, or
on whose behalf the request was made. Neither do the
"sensation-seekers" report whether or not gunmen accepted the proposed
truce or what its terms are.

Official representatives of Ichkeria discuss the matter ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 6/12/2006 2:43 AM

Chechnya attack kills Russian soldier
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Sunday 11 June 2006 9:25 PM GMT

Russian troops stormed Chechnya in 1999

A Russian soldier has been killed and three others wounded during the latest fighting in Chechnya.

The soldier, from a locally recruited special forces battalion of the interior ministry, was shot dead and another one wounded when their unit came under attack on Saturday, the state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday, quoting a security source.

 

The incident took place in a forest near the village of Niki  Khita in the south-eastern Kurchaloi district.

In a separate incident, two other soldiers were wounded after coming under fire in a forest near the village of Bugaroi, in the southern Itum Kale district, high in the mountains of southern Chechnya, the same source said.

There was no independent confirmation of the report.

Official information about fighting in Chechnya is rarely given out and ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 6/12/2006 3:04 AM

The long road to justice

Hundreds of civilians have been murdered during Russia's dirty war in Chechnya. Faced with a state deaf to protest against atrocities, the only recourse for victims' relatives is now the European Court of Human Rights. James Meek on their desperate quest to see the killers brought to book

Monday June 12, 2006

The Guardian

In the middle of the afternoon of February 5 2000, when outside there were the sounds of boots crunching on snow, screams and scattered bursts of gunfire from different directions, Malika Labazanova crouched on the floor of her house at No 20, Third Tsimlyansky Lane, Grozny. A young man in camouflage fatigues held the muzzle of an automatic rifle against her head. Both were citizens of the same country, Russia, but he represented the government, and she did not.


He was young enough to be her son, she ...
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RIA Novosti
Two police officers dead, four wounded in Chechen firefight

12/06/2006 10:48 MOSCOW, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - Two policemen were killed and four wounded late Sunday during two special operations in eastern Chechnya, a local police source said Monday.

A police sergeant died in a hospital after an exchange of fire with a group of militants in the Nozhay-Yurt district of Chechnya and an interior troops serviceman was killed in an operation in the Kurchaloy district.

The police reported several casualties among the militants and said the search for the remaining members of militant groups had continued.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060612/49348766.html