Groups Seek Putin's Help in Chechen Kidnap
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Two international rights organizations appealed to President Vladimir Putin to order the release of eight relatives of a Chechen rebel leader, who were allegedly abducted last month by security forces.
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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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Chechen rebels, in a swift reply to a  Russian bounty offer for their leaders, promised on Thursday to  give $20 million to anyone helping them to capture President  Vladimir Putin.
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MOSCOW - The horrific school hostage seizure has caused a rift among Chechen rebels, Russian officials claimed Saturday. And in an effort to exploit that division, authorities said insurgents can get the $10 million reward offered for information about their top warlords...
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Rebels linked to the school hostage-taking seek independence from Russia and most want to make Chechnya a sovereign Muslim nation.
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Russia offered a $10 million reward on Wednesday for information to help it hunt down Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, whom it accuses of being behind last week&#39;s deadly school siege.
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President Vladimir Putin depicts rebels in Chechnya as part of the international terrorist threat spearheaded by al-Qaida. But analysts say the Chechen insurgency remains largely a nationalist movement aimed at winning independence from Russia.
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BESLAN, Russia  - An armed gang that stormed a  school in southern Russia may be holding as many as 1,500  hostages, far above the official figure of 350, newspapers  quoted freed hostages on Friday as saying.
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An armed gang that seized a school in the southern Russian province of North Ossetia on Wednesday were holding between 120 and 150 hostages, Interfax news agency quoted a local police spokesman as saying.
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Russia offered a $10 million reward on  Wednesday for information to help it hunt down Chechen rebel  leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, whom it accuses of  being behind last week's deadly school siege.
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Russia will revamp its security forces and seek international cooperation to hunt militants in the wake of a school siege which killed more than 300 people nine days ago, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.
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Russia will revamp its security forces  and seek international cooperation to hunt militants in the  wake of a school siege which killed more than 300 people nine  days ago, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.
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The Russian security services placed a $10m (Â£5.6m) bounty yesterday on the heads of two rebel Chechen leaders for ordering the Beslan school siege, as they apparently sought
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Russia today asked the UN to extend its list of international terrorists to include Chechen rebels. Russia&#39;s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, urged the international community to treat the rebels in the same way it treats al-Qaida operatives.
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The horrific school hostage seizure has caused a rift among Chechen rebels, Russian officials claimed Saturday and, in an apparent attempt to exploit division, said insurgents can get the $10 million reward offered for information about
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Moscow, Sep 20. (UNI): Russian troops have launched a special operation to capture Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev and rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov wanted for a series of terrorist attacks in Russia including the Beslan school strike.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday ruled out any negotiations with Chechen rebel leaders  following the Beslan school hostage-seizure in which more than  320 people were killed, half of them children.