Chechens mark birthday of slain leader ahead of election
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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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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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Voting in the separatist Russian republic of Chechnya began amid tight security today in an election to replace Chechen President Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, who was assassinated in a bomb attack in May.
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War-ravaged Chechnyaâs million-strong population goes to the polls today to elect a new president amid strong signs that the downing of two Russian airliners last week, with the loss of 89 lives, was the work of separatist rebels.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure, while in this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya families continued searching for the missing.    A prosecutor said the hostage-takers belonged to a cell formed by radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, the Interfax news agency reported...
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become rebel Chechnya's new president in a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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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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Russia yesterday observed a day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a double air disaster that may have been a terrorist attack in the lead-up to elections in rebel Chechnya.
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The Kremlin&#39;s preferred candidate was poised for election as head of Russia&#39;s conflict-torn republic of Chechnya last night, after a day of voting marred by at least one death and allegations of improper conduct.
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MOZDOK, Russia  - 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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Description: There&#39;s a presidential election Sunday in Chechnya to replace the man who was assassinated earlier this year. The election has been overshadowed by the twin airplane crashes in Russia, which are now attributed to Chechen terrorists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unannounced trip to Chechnya to honor the memory of the assassinated leader of the restive southern republic, one week before a scheduled vote to replace him.
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Russia observed a day of mourning on Thursday for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious double air disaster, which some fear could have been a terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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Children born on the birthday of slain Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov will get &#36;170 in a cash payout that will double for boys who are given his name, a spokesman for the Russian region says.
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A week before the Chechen presidential election, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya on Sunday to lay red carnations on the grave of slain Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov.
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Russian President Vladimir Putrin has made an unannounced trip to Chechnya to honor the memory of the assassinated leader of the restive southern republic, one week before a scheduled vote to replace him.
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GROZNY: With strained nerves, omnipresent security and a feeling of dread, war-weary Chechnya braces for a Kremlin-organised poll tomorrow to replace its leader, slain by a bomb three months ago.