Profile: Aslan Maskhadov
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Born in Kazakhstan in 1951 of Chechen parents deported by Stalin in 1944, Aslan Maskhadov went with them when they returned to Chechnya in 1957.
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Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov is ready to give up his separatist fight and is seeking a way to negotiate with the Kremlin on his surrender, a top Chechen security official said Friday.
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By Ryan Gabrielson, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 17--Hsinchun Chen goes where terrorists gather. He monitors what they say and, particularly, how they say it. He tracks who they are talking to, and whether they are spreading propaganda or providing training. "They're hiding," Chen said.
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Preliminary results gave victory to Alu  Alkhanov in Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, with the  Moscow-backed policeman winning more than 50 percent of the  vote, the region's acting president was quoted as saying.
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U.S. News & World Report - A leader of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1970s,  Natan Sharansky  argues in his new book that democratization of the Middle East is a crucial ingredient for a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In this excerpt, he describes the common features of totalitarian societies in North Korea, Iran, or elsewhere. ...
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The result was no surprise, as the Kremlin backed selection was always expected to win. Alkhanov is a Kremlin replacement for Akhmad Kadyrov who was assassinated in May of this year.
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President Vladimir Putin nominated a widely feared security chief as the new president of Chechnya on Thursday, while Europe's human rights chief denounced torture and other rampant abuses in the war-battered region. Ramzan Kadyrov, who previously had served as Chechnya's prime minister, has run a security force that is accused of abducting and abusing suspected rebels and civilians believed to be connected to them.
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Imad Mughniyeh was a master of deception. He was also Hezbollah's chief of security and its strategist. His alleged role in bombings and kidnappings earned him a place on the "Most Wanted Terrorists" list of the United States.
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Chechnya has elected Moscow&#39;s clear favorite, Alu Alkhanov, as president, with nearly 74 percent of the vote, the BBC reported Monday.
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L'Astana Team, formazione kazaka con licenza svizzera, ha ingaggiato Paolo Savoldelli, leader della ...
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MOSCOW -- A few days before the election that won him the presidency of Russia's violence-plagued Chechnya region, Major General Alu Alkhanov gave a startling order to the police force he commanded: Shoot anyone wearing a mask.
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MOSCOW  - He is Russia's homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths. Like bin Laden, Shamil Basayev is an elusive target who has evaded capture for years.
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Viktor Kozlov is standing out in the Capitals' lineup with his rare ability to control the puck in traffic, distribute passes with accuracy and use his reach to disrupt opponents.
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Akhmed Zakayev, a special envoy to Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has said that a third force that brought Russian President Vladimir Putin to power is behind all the terrorist attacks committed in ...
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As expected, the Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has won more than 70 per cent of the vote, and is already outlining his plans for the war-weary region.
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GROZNY. Nov 9 (Interfax) - Guerrilla commander Rezvan Isayev, a close associate of Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev, is among the fighters killed in a recent large-scale operation in Chechnya&#39;s Vedeno
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Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency  Astana, 12 June: Some 316m dollars should be allocated from the state budget annually for creating the space sector in Kazakhstan, the head of the National Space Agency, Talgat Musabayev, has said.