Chechnya outlaws wearing of masks
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Russia's war-torn Chechnya is to shoot anyone wearing a mask in towns after a bloody raid by rebels.
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down on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people, to avenge the killing of Muslims in Russia&#39;s rebel Chechnya province. But it said on Friday it had identified &quot;a number of people with possible links to the terrorist act&quot;.
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GROZNY, Russia  - Major human rights groups snubbed a Moscow-sponsored rights conference in Chechnya on Thursday, criticizing it as a sham designed to cover up abuses in the troubled Caucasus republic.
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MOSCOW Sept. 9, 2004 - Ten of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia have been identified and six were from Chechnya, security officials said Thursday, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen
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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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Four militants and two policemen die in a clash near Gudermes in Russia's volatile southern republic of Chechnya.
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Up to seven people were killed in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, a report quoting officials said.
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Creating false appearances to cloak an undesirable reality is a fine tradition of Russian governance. The Russians invented the original Potemkin villages, elaborate fake settlements constructed by a Russian
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Russian special forces Friday stormed the school near Chechnya where hundreds of children and adults have been held hostage for 52 hours. The action followed an intense gun battle during which dozens of hostages escaped even as gunmen fired on them.
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MOSCOW : Attacks by Chechen separatists late Saturday in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic, left people several dead, including pro-Russian policemen, Russian news agencies reported, quoting pro-Russian officials.
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Just the word "Chechnya" can conjure images of guerrilla warfare, mine explosions, rampant kidnappings and, for many Russians, wily merchants out to fleece law-abiding citizens.
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A list of major terror attacks linked to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
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Russia outlined on Thursday a series of  steps it had taken to fight kidnapping in Chechnya, a day after  Amnesty International said authorities were letting murder and  kidnap go unpunished in the turbulent republic.
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A glance at Chechnya, which holds a presidential election Sunday, and its conflict. Russian authorities have expressed concern that separatist rebels could carry out attacks linked to the election to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Russian president killed by a bombing in May.
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Two Chechen women were able to pass through layers of airport security, even after being identified as possible terrorists.
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Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
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MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...