Age-old conflict with Chechnya sews fatal seeds
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MOSCOW -- As Russia&#39;s summer of terror reached a bloody climax Friday, it might be easy to forget that a long and agonizing conflict is behind the headline-grabbing horrors that have included exploding airliners, suicide bombs in crowded subway stations
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MOSCOW - The deadly Chechen militant attack on a school in southern Russia has produced a split in the rebel cause, Russian officials claimed on Saturday.    In what was an apparent attempt to exploit the division, Russia announced earlier this week that it would pay $10 million for information leading to the arrest of the top Chechen rebel leaders, Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov...
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Chechnya is often called a breakaway republic, but the militant separatists who have harried Russian forces for more than a decade and struck with bold attacks within and beyond the mostly Muslim region's borders are a relatively small segment of a population long tired of bloodshed.
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Up to seven people were killed in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, a report quoting officials said.
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Four militants and two policemen die in a clash near Gudermes in Russia's volatile southern republic of Chechnya.
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
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MOSCOW It will soon be 10 years since Boris Yeltsin launched the first war in Chechnya, and five years since Vladimir Putin resumed it.
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AN EXPLOSION killed a man trying to take a suspicious package into a polling station in warring Chechnyaâs capital yesterday, the only reported violence as Chechens walked through ruined streets to vote on a replacement for their assassinated pro
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President Vladimir Putin's rise was powered largely by a pledge to take down Chechen separatists. Yet the rebels are still killing Russian soldiers and appear increasingly bold in spilling civilian blood &#151; blamed for three dramatic attacks in little over a week.
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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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Chechens elect a new president today, 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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A brawl between hundreds of Caucasus migrants and local Russians &#151; all armed with metal rods, baseball bats and knives &#151; killed an ethnic Chechen in southern Russia, officials said Saturday.
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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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The Kremlin&#39;s candidate has won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue the separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.
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KHIMKI, Russia, Jan. 15 - Mikhail I. Yermakov, a retired engineer, has never before taken to the streets to protest - not when the Soviet Union collapsed, the wars in Chechnya began, the ruble plummeted in 1998 or President Vladimir V. Putin last year ended his right to choose his governor.
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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