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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MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, including 200 children. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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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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The government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has seized on the events around the armed takeover of a school in Beslan, a town in the southern republic of Ossetia, to broaden its âantiterrorism
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BBC News Online examines the background to the conflict in Chechnya.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin depicts rebels in Chechnya as part of the international terrorist threat spearheaded by Al Qaeda. But analysts say the Chechen insurgency remains largely a nationalist movement aimed at winning independence from Russia.
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Russia's war-scarred Chechnya region continues to be plagued by torture and unlawful detentions, with human rights violations rarely investigated, a European anti-torture committee said Tuesday.
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Hundreds of Chechens have marched in the capital, Grozny, to protest against moves to pardon a Russian ex-colonel jailed for murdering a Chechen girl.
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MOSCOW: Attacks by Chechen militants in Grozny, left 22 people dead including policemen and injured several others. Several Chechen guerrillas attacked a police station and polling station in the north of
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GROZNY, Russia -- Chechnya's new Kremlin-backed president was sworn in yesterday, taking the helm of this wartorn Russian region under heavy guard nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated and nearly a month after a wave of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels.
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The heavily armed militants behind a deadly school raid in southern Russia passed through a region dotted by checkpoints whose chief purpose is to keep violence from spreading outside the breakaway Chechnya region.
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Belarussian guards on the border with Poland have stepped up security because large numbers of Chechens have been trying to go west, reports say.
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BBC News Online profiles the top Chechen rebels sought by Russia for 300m roubles ($10m) following the Beslan school siege in North Ossetia.
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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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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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Authorities have detained 15 foreigners in Chechnya, most of them citizens of former Soviet Muslim republics, military officials said Tuesday.
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Moscow, Oct. 6. (UNI): The new President of war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov took the oath of office in Grozny, the Chechen capital, amid very tight security throughout the region.