Chechnya's new leader vows to destroy rebels after contested vote
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The Kremlin-anointed career police officer elected Chechnya's new leader in a vote condemned by many observers vowed to consign separatist extremists to the "dustbin of history".
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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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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become rebel Chechnya's new president in a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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Voting in the separatist Russian republic of Chechnya began amid tight security today in an election to replace Chechen President Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, who was assassinated in a bomb attack in May.
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Radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev has apparently taken responsibility for a recent series of terrorist attacks in Russia.
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The new president of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, is due to be sworn in amid high security in the capital, Grozny.
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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov was sworn in as Chechnya's president Tuesday in a heavily guarded ceremony seen as another step in the Kremlin's strategy to undermine rebels in the war-ravaged region, Russian media reported.
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ALU Alkhanov, Chechnyaâs president-elect, yesterday pledged to bring peace and stability to his war-torn southern Russian region, a day after the Kremlin-backed candidate won a vote tainted by allegations of fraud and overshadowed by fears of terrorism.
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A Moscow-backed policeman was set to become rebel Chechnya's new president in a fraught election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the attacker was killed.
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There has been more violence in the strife-torn republic of Chechnya, just days before the Russian region is due to elect a new president.
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A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya after a vote that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled republic but which was nonetheless punctuated by violence.
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's candidate to lead warring Chechnya easily won a presidential election held in the wake of last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners, election officials said Monday. The opposition charged voting was tainted by fraud...
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President Vladimir Putin's rise was powered largely by a pledge to take down Chechen separatists. Yet the rebels are still killing Russian soldiers and appear increasingly bold in spilling civilian blood &#151; blamed for three dramatic attacks in little over a week.
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Chechens elect a new president today, 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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Guatemala's new president, Alvaro Colom, pledged on Monday to fight violence and drug trafficking as he took power in a country racked by crime.
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Chechnya's new president was to be sworn in on Tuesday, nearly five months after its previous leader was assassinated and a day after it was announced the republic would hold parliamentary elections in the spring.
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Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev purportedly took responsibility today for a school siege and other recent attacks that have killed more than 430 people.