In pictures: War in Chechnya
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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  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya's presidential election but faces a struggle  controlling the warring region and subduing a resurgent  separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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In 1999, President Vladimir Putin promised Russians a two-week war that would crush the separatist enemy. Instead, he has given them an endless struggle that haunts his presidency.
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1979: The Soviet Union sends troops into Afghanistan to support a pro-Moscow regime, sparking a decade-long war with anti-communist forces supplied and trained by the United States.
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Artist and photographer  Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the  glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to  project.
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KURILOVO, Russia  - As Lyubov Rodionova flicks  through her pictures, all showing the same young man in  uniform, it becomes obvious these are not just family snaps.
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MOSCOW Sept. 16, 2004 - Some of the weapons used by militants in the deadly Russian school siege were pilfered from police posts in armed raids allegedly led by one of Chechnya&#39;s most notorious warlords, Russia&#39;s
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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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A war on Soviet-era monuments is continuing in Estonia. A monument at a site of execution of 26 Red Army fighters in 1919 was vandalised in the town Katela in Estonia.
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Chechens began voting Sunday for a new president, but few expect peace to follow from a Kremlin-sponsored contest overshadowed by fighting and twin plane crashes some have linked to rebels in the region.
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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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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President Vladimir Putin depicts rebels in Chechnya as part of the international terrorist threat spearheaded by al-Qaida. But analysts say the Chechen insurgency remains largely a nationalist movement aimed at winning independence from Russia.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The hostage standoff at a school near Chechnya ended tragically yesterday with more than 200 children and adults reported killed and hundreds injured in an afternoon of fighting.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya'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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MOSCOW, Nov 30 (IPS) - Three human rights organisations have said that  abductions and torture are rampant in Chechnya despite the  relative calm.
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.