Chechens vote for new leader
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14,000 Chechen police patrolled the streets, alongside Russian forces. Outside one polling. station police on 24-hour security shifts, were stopping cars from parking within 15 metres (50 feet) of the building.
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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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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become the new president of rebel Chechnya in a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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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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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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Chechnya's parliament approved a widely feared former security chief as president of the war-battered Russian republic in a nearly unanimous vote Friday, a day after President Vladimir Putin nominated him.
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GROZNY, Russia -- Unofficial results show the Russian government&#39;s choice for Chechen president already has enough votes to claim victory.
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Moscow, Oct. 6. (UNI): The new President of war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov took the oath of office in Grozny, the Chechen capital, amid very tight security throughout the region.
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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 a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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Intrigue was entirely absent from Sundayâs presidential elections in Chechnya. The name of the next Kremlin-bankrolled leader of Chechnya was known days after the
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OISKHARA, Russia - Chechnya&#39;s tense presidential election campaign came to a close with a 79 per cent turnout at the ballot box -- and the winner all but certain.
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A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya in a vote Sunday that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled
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The presidential election in Chechnya is just days away, but Moscow has already cast its highly influential vote. ULYANOVSK, Russia--Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly dropped
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Seven candidates ended their four-week-long presidential campaign Friday in Chechnya, with Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov standing as a clear favorite to win the election slated for Sunday in the Russian republic.
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Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya votes in a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader, amid fears of rebel raids.
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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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Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya elected Alu Alkhanov president in a poll held to replace Akhamad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May.