New Chechen Leader Vows Peace, Poll Criticized
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Chechnya&#39;s new leader vowed on Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists, after winning an election condemned by rights groups as a stage-managed show and by Washington as seriously flawed.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s new envoy to Chechnya on Wednesday urged local officials to end corruption, while troops swept towns and villages hunting for rebels.
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GROZNY, Russia : A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya in a vote that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled republic but that was nonetheless punctuated by violence.
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Chechnya is to elect a new president, three months after the last one was killed in a bomb attack.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for last month&#39;s Beslan school hostage-taking, warned Sunday that he was ready to fight Russia for a decade and insisted civilians remained a fair target.
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Chechnya's pro-Kremlin leader was sworn in as president of the turbulent Russian region Tuesday and acknowledged immediately he was a prime target for assassination by separatists.
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A Chechen rebel leader is vowing to bring to justice warlord Shamil Basayev over the Beslan school hostage-taking that ended with the deaths of more than 300 people, according to a posting on a Chechen rebel Web site.
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ALU Alkhanov, Chechnyaâs president-elect, yesterday pledged to bring peace and stability to his war-torn southern Russian region, a day after the Kremlin-backed candidate won a vote tainted by allegations of fraud and overshadowed by fears of terrorism.
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GROZNY, Russia : Chechens voted in an election expected to crown a Kremlin-backed candidate as the strife-torn republic&#39;s new leader, with thousands of security personnel patrolling its streets against the threat of rebel attacks.
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OISKHARA, Russia - 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 the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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As voters went to the polls Sunday in Chechnya, there was little doubt about who would be anointed president of the embattled Russian
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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov was sworn in as Chechnya's president Tuesday in a heavily guarded ceremony seen as another step in the Kremlin's strategy to undermine rebels in the war-ravaged region, Russian media reported.
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GROZNY, Russia  - Chechnya's new leader vowed  Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists  after winning an election condemned by a rights group as a show  stage-managed by Moscow.
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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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GROZNY, Russia  - Chechnya's new leader vowed on  Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists  after winning an election condemned by a rights group as a show  stage-managed by Moscow.
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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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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Major General Alu Alkhanov was to be sworn in as Chechnya&#39;s president yesterday in a ceremony that the Kremlin hopes will help usher in stability and peace to the war-ravaged region.