Profile: Aslan Maskhadov
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Born in Kazakhstan in 1951 of Chechen parents deported by Stalin in 1944, Aslan Maskhadov went with them when they returned to Chechnya in 1957.
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Russian news agency&#39;s report the Russian government&#39;s choice has easily won the election for president of Chechnya. ITAR-Tass says the republic&#39;s police chief -- Alu Alkhanov -- received nearly 74 percent of the vote.
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THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC of Chechnya got a new president Sunday -- but congratulations to Alu Alkhanov, the career police officer taking over the job, don&#39;t really seem to be in order.
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Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency  Astana, 12 June: Some 316m dollars should be allocated from the state budget annually for creating the space sector in Kazakhstan, the head of the National Space Agency, Talgat Musabayev, has said.
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Before Roger Federer, there was Marat Safin. It was Safin, the Russian bear, who was supposed to be what Federer has become. It was Safin who first hoisted the burden of being the greatest
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The former policeman Alu Alkhanov capped the official announcement of his election as Chechnya&#39;s president yesterday by demanding that the separatist militant leader, Aslan Maskhadov, face trial and apologise to the Chechen people.
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PARIS: AC Milan&#39;s Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko, right, was last night named European footballer of the year for 2004. The 28-year-old becomes the third Ukrainian to win the award after Oleg Blockhin
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The result was no surprise, as the Kremlin backed selection was always expected to win. Alkhanov is a Kremlin replacement for Akhmad Kadyrov who was assassinated in May of this year.
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Sports: 19 November 2004, Friday. The mentor of Bulgarian football team Hristo Stoitchkov has called eighteen players from national clubs to join the match in Cairo.
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sama: The Making of a Terrorist&quot; by a former Washington Post correspondent, Jonathan Randal, is less a biography of Al Qaeda&#39;s mastermind Osama bin Laden than a history of the contemporary jihadi movement, from its ...
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MOSCOW -- They are an odd trio: a chess grandmaster, a flamboyantly controversial radical and a suave former insider. Together they have embarked on a political quest that seems not merely quixotic but hopelessly so: regime change in Russia.
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Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the 12th round Saturday night with a dramatic last-minute rally to win the WBC heavyweight title.
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MOSCOW Sept. 19, 2004 - He is Russia&#39;s homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths.
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Alu Alkhanov is likely to win Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said.
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Let&#39;s start with handing a Player of the Week Award to Anastasia Myskina, who defended her Kremlin Cup title (beating Elena Dementieva in the final) and taking the doubles (with Vera Zvonareva).
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After Beslan, the Kremlin promised a massive manhunt to track down Shamil Basayev. But Chechnya's terrorist in chief still moves with ease in his home district of Vedeno. A profile of the man behind Russia's 9/11
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early results from a tense poll marked by a bomb blast in which only the attacker was killed. &quot;The presidential candidate Alu Alkhanov, according to preliminary results... has already passed the 50-percent barrier.