Number: RL31620
Title: Russia's Chechnya Conflict: An Update
Authors: Jim Nichol, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: After the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, the United States and Russia adopted a cooperative stance against global terrorism that many observers viewed as including enhanced U.S. recognition that Russia's conflict in its breakaway Chechnya region was, in part, a struggle against terrorism. This cooperation has become strained in recent months, for reasons that include more U.S. criticism of intensified Russian fighting in Chechnya deemed to violate human rights.
Pages: 22
Date: Updated April 16, 2003