Profile: Aslan Maskhadov
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Born in Kazakhstan in 1951 of Chechen parents deported by Stalin in 1944, Aslan Maskhadov went with them when they returned to Chechnya in 1957.
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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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As expected, the Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has won more than 70 per cent of the vote, and is already outlining his plans for the war-weary region.
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TEHRAN, Jan. 18 -- Ali Akbar Assadi entered the dark room in downtown Tehran, only to be blocked by a wall of men. The air was moist from sweat. Darkness engulfed him as he made his way forward.
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The W.B.C. heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev pulled out of his Oct. 6 title defense against Samuel Peter yesterday, citing a back injury. The decision by Maskaev (34-5, 26 knockouts) to postpone his mandatory defense infuriated Peterâs representatives, who called on the W.B.C. to stage an interim title fight on the same date at Madison Square Garden. Peter (28-1, 22 KOs), a Nigerian boxer considered the sportâs top rising heavyweight, has been pursuing a title shot for two years.
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This is how President Alexander Lukashenko maintains an atmosphere of fear in his forgotten country: Nikita Sasim, a 21-year-old student and pro-democracy activist here in Belarus, was walking in Minsk a week ...
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MOSCOW Shamil Basayev, the elusive Chechen guerrilla commander who has become Russia&#39;s most wanted man, has claimed responsibility for planning terror attacks that have killed more than 440 people here in recent weeks and is threatening to strike anew, a
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A Syrian jailed since 2001 and thought to be a major operative for Al Qaeda has been identified as the prime mover behind the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid, a high-ranking intelligence official told the ...
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Alu Alkhanov is likely to win Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said.
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GROZNY. Aug 30 (Interfax) - Alu Alkhanov, who according to initial vote counts is believed to have won Sunday&#39;s Chechen presidential election, said he is going to concentrate on accelerating the restoration
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L'Astana Team, formazione kazaka con licenza svizzera, ha ingaggiato Paolo Savoldelli, leader della ...
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ELEANOR HALL: And now joining us to discuss the implications of the crisis for Russia and Chechnya, is an expert on the politics of Russia and Central Asia, Dr Kirill Nourzhanov.
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Ousted Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov has rejected accusations he helped plan the school siege in North Ossetia in which more than 330 people died, his representative in Europe told a German news magazine.
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Chechen leader Aslan Mashadow revealed divisions between him and Shamil Basayev, the former Chechen commander who orchestrated the siege of the grammar school in Beslan, North Ossetia, when he declared that a criminal court would judge Basayev.
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The Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, tried to distance himself from extremists in the independence movement yesterday by declaring that his former commander-in-chief Shamil Basayev would one day stand trial for ordering the Beslan school siege.
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Let&#39;s start with handing a Player of the Week Award to Anastasia Myskina, who defended her Kremlin Cup title (beating Elena Dementieva in the final) and taking the doubles (with Vera Zvonareva).
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U.S. News & World Report - A leader of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1970s,  Natan Sharansky  argues in his new book that democratization of the Middle East is a crucial ingredient for a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In this excerpt, he describes the common features of totalitarian societies in North Korea, Iran, or elsewhere. ...