Chechnya elects Moscow&#39;s favorite
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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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THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC of Chechnya got a new president Sunday -- but congratulations to Alu Alkhanov, the career police officer taking over the job, don&#39;t really seem to be in order.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin's favoured candidate for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, Russian news agencies reported Monday citing preliminary results.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman won  Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, according to early  results from a tense poll marked by a bomb blast in which only  the attacker was killed.
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PROKHLADNY, Russia  - Chechens elect a new  president Sunday, 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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The Kremlin candidate has won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election with 73.48 per cent of the vote, according to preliminary results.
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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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Moscow, Aug 29 (VNA) - Chechens voted on Sunday in an election to choose a candidate as the Russian republic&#39;s new leader, with thousands of security personnel patrolling its streets against the threat of terrorist attacks.
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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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After Beslan, the Kremlin promised a massive manhunt to track down Shamil Basayev. But Chechnya's terrorist in chief still moves with ease in his home district of Vedeno. A profile of the man behind Russia's 9/11
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become rebel Chechnya's president after a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Chechnya ahead of presidential elections next Sunday in the southern republic where rebels are fighting to create an independent Islamic state, Interfax reported.
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GROZNY, Russia : A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya in a vote that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled republic but that was nonetheless punctuated by violence.
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A pro-Kremlin former policeman has become president of Chechnya, according to partial results last night of an election held after a week of rebel attacks made a mockery of Moscow&#39;s claim to have pacified the republic.
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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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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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MOSCOW, Aug 23  - Chechens marked the birthday of their murdered leader Monday, days ahead of an election to replace him at the helm of the Caucasus republic where a five-year guerrilla war shows no signs of dying down.