Violence hits Russia's N.Caucasus region
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A shootout in Chechnya's capital left two policemen and a rebel dead, the Chechen Interior Ministry said Friday.
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At least 11 police officers have been wounded in clashes in Chechnya, officials said Monday.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 4 -- Tension between Russia and Georgia, never far from the surface, flared anew Monday after a helicopter carrying the Georgian defense minister was shot at by separatists in a breakaway enclave supported by Russia.
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Gunmen attacked a police station and voting centres in Russia&#39;s war-torn Chechnya, killing at least 11 people, Interfax news agency said on Saturday.
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Fighting in Georgia's separatist pro-Russia region of South Ossetia killed another three Georgian servicemen and wounded five in the escalating conflict warily watched by Moscow and the West.
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Russian prosecutors on Tuesday charged four Chechen men with murder as part of their probe into clashes in a northern Russian town that left two local residents dead and triggered a wave of mob violence, officials said.
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Three Georgian soldiers have been killed and five wounded in clashes in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia, Rustavi 2 television reported, quoting an unnamed official with the Georgian interior ministry.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian riot police fired warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim region of Ingushetia, a witness said.
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MOSCOW -- Maintaining control over the North Caucasus region, where the plains of southern Russia give way to mountain ridges and the predominant faith changes from Orthodox Christianity to Islam, has been Moscow's headache for centuries.
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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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To anyone who remembers the way that past sieges ended in the Caucasus, the chaotic scenes in Beslan were horribly familiar. The storming of the school was not planned.
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Several people are reported killed in a large blast in Nazran, in the troubled Russian republic of Ingushetia.
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Armed men attacked a school in a southern Russia region near Chechnya on Wednesday and seized hostages among schoolchildren and parents, Interfax news agency said.
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Explosions and gunfire echoed over this regional capital Thursday as government troops battled South Ossetian separatists over key hills outside town, after a week of near nightly clashes that escalated into some of the worst fighting in a decade.
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Prague, 17 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Fresh fighting and further casualties were reported overnight in Georgia&#39;s separatist republic of South Ossetia. The violence erupted hours after Georgia and South Ossetia reached an agreement under which all armed units ...
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Georgian forces fired at an airplane they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic's airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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DIMAPUR / GUWAHATI: In a sudden outburst of violence in Northeast, 41 people were killed and about 140 injured in a series of blasts and firing by militants in Nagaland and neighbouring Assam on Sunday.