Chechnya to Swear in New President
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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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Hamid Karzai was set to be sworn in on  Tuesday as the country's first popularly elected president at a  ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for  easing him into power.
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MOSCOW - Chechens trudge to the polls again next weekend to choose a president amid little hope that the winnerâalmost certain to be the Kremlin candidateâwill stem the bloodshed in Russiaâs festering wound of a republic.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of political turmoil and setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to move out of imperial leader Russia's sphere of influence.
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OISKHARA, Russia - Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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Hamid Karzai was due to be sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected President on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.
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MOZDOK, Russia  - 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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Chechnya&#39;s pro-Kremlin leader was sworn in as president of the turbulent Russian region Tuesday and acknowledged immediately he was a prime target for assassination by separatists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday appointed Ramzan Kadyrov, a 30-year-old former rebel,  as acting president of Chechnya after removing Alu Alkhanov  from the top job, a spokesman for Putin said.
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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov was sworn in Tuesday as Chechnya's president in a heavily guarded ceremony seen as another step in the Kremlin's strategy to undermine rebels in this war-ravaged region.
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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.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in  as Ukraine's new president on Sunday, ending weeks of political  turmoil and setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to ease  its way out of Russia's sphere of influence.
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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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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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Moscow, Oct 5 (PTI) Major General Alu Alkhanov was today sworn-in as the President of Chechnya amid unprecedented security, nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated.
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Polling stations have closed in Chechnya, in an election expected to crown a Kremlin-backed career police officer as the new leader of the breakaway Caucasus republic.
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Chechnya&#039;s new separatist leader has named warlord Shamil Basayev, wanted by Russia for a string of shocking terrorist attacks, as his vice president in a move that could signal a radicalization of the Chechen rebel movement.