Chechnya War A Maddening Trap for Putin
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The broken and burned bodies of children had just been pulled from the wreckage of a small-town school. All Russia was in mourning.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  Thursday ruled out negotiations with Chechen rebels after the  Beslan school bloodbath, further straining ties with Western  leaders who are pressing for a political solution to Chechnya.
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Intrigue was entirely absent from Sundayâs presidential elections in Chechnya. The name of the next Kremlin-bankrolled leader of Chechnya was known days after the
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The president who said he looked into Vladimir Putin's soul three years ago and liked what he saw may take a dimmer view of the Russian president now. How to deal with the increasingly authoritarian leader is giving the Bush administration a second-term headache.
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The Kremlin&#39;s candidate has won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue the separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.
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The date of Chechnya's elections has assumed a local significance the Kremlin would no doubt prefer to avoid: a masquerade of democracy, and a dangerous one.
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NEW YORK -- President Vladimir Putin should grant Chechnya special status within Russia to end a decade-long insurgency, although some Western countries would like to see Moscow trapped in the ''Chechen quagmire&quot; for years, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said yesterday.
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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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BESLAN, Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his nation it has shown weakness in the face of an &quot;all-out&quot; war by terrorists.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin voices doubts over plans to hold elections in Iraq next month.
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President Vladimir Putin was thoroughly justified in his outrage at the Beslan atrocities, but there was an ominous tone to his suggestion that part of the problem was that Western powers were mucking around in the Caucasus, or that Russia was vulnerable
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Ever since the start of the second Chechen war, the Russian leadership, and President Vladimir Putin in particular, have been terribly fond of saying that we are waging war against international terrorism in Chechnya.
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RUSSIAN ON-LINE NEWSPAPER - Questions are mounting about whether Putin&#39;s policies - not only in Chechnya but also the power consolidation drive to stamp out opposition and public debate - are exacerbating the terrorist threat.
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PRESIDENT PUTIN faced the most serious foreign policy crisis of his five-year rule last night after the Kremlin s efforts to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine were left in tatters.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday a tough response to what he called an "all-out war" by terrorists against Russia, as the body count from the school hostage-taking rose to more than 340 dead and some relatives still searched for their loved ones amid the confusion.    A grim-faced Putin addressed the nation on television after a pre-dawn visit to the scene of the hostage-taking in Beslan...
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A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 340 people &#151; nearly half of them children &#151; were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin's candidate has won  Chechnya's presidential election but faces an uphill struggle  to subdue a resurgence of a separatist rebellion that has  frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.