Analysis: Russia&#39;s Caucasus quagmire
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Nothing whatsoever can explain or justify the unspeakable cruelty of the terrorists, who remain solely responsible for the wholesale massacre of children in the school in Beslan.
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The Kremlin candidate won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but now faces a struggle to keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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The republic of Chechnya&#39;s election won by Russian-backed presidential candidate Alu Alkhanov had ``serious flaws,&#39;&#39; the Bush administration said.
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President Bush's support for Vladimir Putin at their brief summit puzzles Russia scholars, who say the Russian president is being rewarded for behavior the West should be discouraging.
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A Chechen human rights researcher is warning that militant Islamic ideology is gaining currency in the Russian separatist region of Chechnya and broadening its appeal elsewhere in the tense North Caucasus.
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Russian  commentators draw parallels  between the Beslan siege and the 9/11 attacks in the US.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plan to strengthen his grip on the country by nominating governors and eliminating individual races in State Duma elections appears to contradict only the spirit
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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A breakdown of which former Soviet republics enjoy generally warm official ties with Russia and which have a chillier relationship:
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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse examines the dangers Islamist militancy and ruthless security force action pose in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
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Nobody in Russia seems to know how scrapping the popular vote in regional elections can help Russia&#39;s war against terrorism. ULYANOVSK, Russia--In the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, Russians were expecting
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Georgia's path to Nato is littered with roadblocks, says BBC's James Rodgers.
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An escalating confrontation between Georgia and Russia and the Russian sanctions that accompany it are threatening GeorgiaÂs economy.
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His government had just suffered one of Russia&#39;s worst terrorist attacks, apparently stemming from a war he has neither won nor ended.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s move earlier this week to enhance his own power in response to a wave of terrorism does not take on the real problem: the corrupt and unreformed security
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia&#39;s US-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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A summit of ex-Soviet republics billed as forging a common front against terrorism after the Beslan school siege descended into acrimony as Georgia accused Russia of double standards.