Election Day in Chechnya brings fear, empty streets
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Elections for a new president of Chechnya unfolded in ghostly emptiness here yesterday as many residents fled the city or stayed indoors to avoid potential
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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As the country prepares for local elections on Sunday, many are finding that the murder and intimidation that once defined politics here are diminishing.
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GROZNY, Russia Aug. 29, 2004 - Chechens battered by five years of war, terrorism and misery voted Sunday for a president in an election that the Russian government portrayed as step toward stability, though
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As voters went to the polls Sunday in Chechnya, there was little doubt about who would be anointed president of the embattled Russian
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This freshly minted democracy is about to hold the first open election in its history, but Saturday&#39;s vote fills Afghans here both with elation and fear.
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A glance at Chechnya, which holds a presidential election Sunday, and its conflict. Russian authorities have expressed concern that separatist rebels could carry out attacks linked to the election to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Russian president killed by a bombing in May.
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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Isolated problems were already cropping up as polls opened, and election officials were bracing for a long, exhausting night.
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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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Description: There&#39;s a presidential election Sunday in Chechnya to replace the man who was assassinated earlier this year. The election has been overshadowed by the twin airplane crashes in Russia, which are now attributed to Chechen terrorists.
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A Kremlin-backed candidate appeared victorious Sunday in Chechnya&#39;s presidential election, which was marred by a blast at a polling station and mounting evidence that the recent crashes
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Chechens began voting Sunday for a new president, but few expect peace to follow from a Kremlin-sponsored contest overshadowed by fighting and twin plane crashes some have linked to rebels in the region.
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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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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.
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Voting is under way in Russia&#39;s breakaway region of Chechnya to select a replacement for a president who was killed in a bomb attack.
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MOSCOW, Sep 25 (IPS) - A year after elections, little promise is in sight  for the development of free and independent media in the  autonomous republic of Chechnya.