Rights 'catastrophe' in Chechnya
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The Council of Europe says human rights in Chechnya are "catastrophic" - not the view of the region's president.
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UP to seven people were killed today in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
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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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Chechen attacks highlight Russia's failure to crush a rebellion
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The people of Russia have experienced the extremes to which terrorists are prepared to go to achieve their ends. Terrorists killed more than three-hundred people, mostly children, at a school they seized in Beslan.
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Russia launched massive air strikes on the Chechen capital, Grozny, in December 1994 after the Chechen government refused to disarm and surrender to Moscow&#39;s authority.
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GROZNY, Russia -- President Vladimir Putin gave power in Chechnya yesterday to a widely feared pro-Russian strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, even as Europe's human rights chief warned of widespread torture and other abuses allegedly committed by Kadyrov's henchmen.
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The intentional targeting of a school by Chechen hostage-takers and the cruelty and the brutality they employed against defenceless children has horrified the world.
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MOSCOW: Chechnya's feared warlord Shamil Basayev yesterday claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia that killed more than 338 people, half of them children.
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Attacks by Chechen separatists in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway Russian republic, have left several people dead. Russian news agencies reported that a number of Chechen fighters had been killed along with several pro-Russian policemen.
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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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After the horrendous hostage-taking in Beslan and the killing of more than 300 people, an end to the bloody cycle of retaliation tied to the Chechnya conflict seems farther away than ever.
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MOSCOW  - Human Rights Watch urged Russian authorities on Wednesday to take action against the vicious hazing that plagues the country's military, saying the abuse that kills dozens of conscripts every year and traumatizes thousands more can be prevented.
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Hundreds of Chechens protest against moves to pardon a former Russian colonel who strangled a Chechen teenager.
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MOSCOW -- Human Rights Watch urged Russian authorities yesterday to take action against the vicious hazing that plagues the nation's military, saying the abuse that kills dozens of conscripts every year and traumatizes thousands more can be prevented.
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Hate crimes in Russia have grown increasingly brutal and deadly but authorities do little to combat xenophobia, one of the country's leading rights groups said Tuesday.
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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.