By empty (11/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Kazakhstan will repay ahead of schedule a total of $849 million of its foreign debt by the end of this year, Finance Minister Arman Dunayev said on Monday. Dunayev told a government meeting that the early repayment would allow the Central Asian state to save $209 million in debt servicing. Dunayev also said that the early debt repayment would allow the nation\'s monetary authorities to soak up excessive money supply and keep quickening inflation in check.

By empty (11/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Rights groups plan large-scale protests in Chechnya in response to the November 16 killing of three Chechen civilians by Russian soldiers on the outskirts of the Chechen capital Grozny, Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, head of Chechnya\'s constitutional rights defense service, said on Saturday. The late night incident occurred on Said Baduyev Street on the outskirts of the village of Staraya Sunzha. \"Persons in camouflage uniforms and masks who identified themselves as law enforcement officials arrested Yusup Usmanov, Khusain Akhmadov and Dzhambulat Dushayev and, without explanation, laid them on the ground and killed them by shooting each in the back of the head,\" the Grozny police authority told Interfax.

By empty (11/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The military prosecutor\'s office of the Moscow Military District is investigating the car accident in which Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov was injured, a prosecution service source said on Friday. \"The reason for this decision is the fact that the car in which Abramov was traveling was being driven by a serviceman, a member of the Federal Bodyguard Service,\" the source told Interfax. (Interfax).