Chechnya Holds Election to Replace Leader
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Ten years after Chechnya descended into war, and less than four months after its president was assassinated in a bomb blast, Chechens are voting for his successor Sunday in an atmosphere of violence and suspicion.
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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 a rights group as a show stage-managed by Moscow.
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Grozny, Russia - The Russian government&#39;s choice for president of war-battered Chechnya easily won an election that came in the wake of last week&#39;s terrorist destruction of two airliners, the ITAR-Tass news agency cited election officials as saying on
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With a sense of foreboding, Chechnya prepared on Saturday for a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader as rebels vowed to keep up their attacks in the war-torn republic.
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GROZNY, Russia -- Kremlin favorite Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov is the clear front-runner in election results for the presidency of the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya.
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Chechnya's new president was to be sworn in on Tuesday, nearly five months after its previous leader was assassinated and a day after it was announced the republic would hold parliamentary elections in the spring.
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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 date of Chechnya's elections has assumed a local significance the Kremlin would no doubt prefer to avoid: a masquerade of democracy, and a dangerous one.
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The Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has got 75.1 percent of the ballots in Sunday&#39;s presidential poll in Russia&#39;s Chechen republic after 64.
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The new president of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, is due to be sworn in amid high security in the capital, Grozny.
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Chechnya&#39;s new Kremlin-backed president was sworn in Tuesday, taking the helm of this wartorn Russian region under heavy guard nearly five months after his predecessor
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MOSCOW - Chechens trudge to the polls again next weekend to choose a president amid little hope that the winnerâalmost certain to be the Kremlin candidateâwill stem the bloodshed in Russiaâs festering wound of a republic.
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A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya in a vote Sunday that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled
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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 rights groups as a  stage-managed show and by Washington as seriously flawed.
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Russia&#39;s restive republic of Chechnya will elect a president to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow leader killed last May, the BBC reported Sunday.
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Chechens marked the birthday of their murdered leader, days ahead of an election to replace him at the helm of the Caucasus republic where a five-year guerrilla war shows no signs of dying down.
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OISKHARA, Russia - A man tried to bring a suspicious package to a polling station in Chechnya on Sunday during a presidential election, then died in an explosion as he ran away, the head of the Chechen election commision said on Russian television.    The Chechens voted for a president to replace the Kremlin-backed leader who was killed in a bomb blast in May...