Viewpoint: Top Chechen rebels
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Caucasus expert Sebastian Smith profiles wanted Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
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Opponents have questioned the Chechen election win of Alu Alkhanov, who vowed to triumph over the region&#39;s rebels. Mr Alkhanov, Moscow&#39;s preferred candidate, was officially reported to have won more than 73.
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Chechen separatist leaders have ordered a ceasefire for the month of February, a leading rebel website reports.
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Russian forces swept through forested mountains in eastern Chechnya Wednesday in an effort to capture rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, once the president of the breakaway republic until driven from power.
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The Kremlin candidate won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but now faces a struggle to keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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With a sense of foreboding, Chechnya prepared on Saturday for a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader as rebels vowed to keep up their attacks in the war-torn republic.
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Amid high concern over rebel attacks, voters in Russia&#39;s war-torn republic of Chechnya began on Sunday to elect a successor to their former slain president.
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Radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev has apparently taken responsibility for a recent series of terrorist attacks in Russia.
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Russia today asked the UN to extend its list of international terrorists to include Chechen rebels. Russia&#39;s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, urged the international community to treat the rebels in the same way it treats al-Qaida operatives.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Rebels in Chechnya have not  attacked Russian forces in the three days since the rebels'  fugitive leader ordered a cease-fire, a source in the  mountainous region's pro-Moscow police said on Sunday.
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A Web site linked to Chechnya's separatist rebels has reported that top leaders of the insurgency have called for a unilateral cease-fire to be observed in February.
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MOSCOW  - The deadly Chechen militant attack on a school in southern Russia has produced a split in the rebel cause, Russian officials claimed Saturday. In what was an apparent attempt to exploit the division, Russia announced earlier this week that it would pay the equivalent of about &#36;13 million Cdn for information leading to the arrest of the top Chechen rebel leaders, Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- A Chechen rebel leader told a Russian newspaper that a unilateral cease-fire he announced should help lead to peace talks with the Kremlin, and an official said yesterday that the truce had been holding for a week.
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MOSCOW -- Chechen security forces killed 22 separatist rebels, including the alleged organizer of the assassination of the republic's president, a top republic official said yesterday, according to news reports. Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov was quoted as saying the rebels were killed in an operation in the Vedeno region, about 30 miles southeast of Grozny, the Chechen capital. The ...
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A list of major terror attacks linked to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted Sunday for a  new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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The Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya said Monday he was open to negotiating with rebel leaders if they could ensure that their followers make good on any commitments undertaken in peace talks.