Peace in Chechnya comes at brutal cost
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GROZNY, Russia -- Twelve years after Chechnya sank into a maelstrom of violence, Russia has all but won its war against separatist rebels in the breakaway Muslim republic. Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy of slowly withdrawing federal forces and relying on a pro-Moscow Chechen strongman to squelch the conflict seems to have worked.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya's presidential election but now faces a struggle to  keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent  separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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Description: Tensions between Russia and Chechnya escalated with the rebel seizure of a school in Beslan earlier this month. Chechen separatists claim the violence stems from decades of abuse by Russian authorities seeking to take control of the region.
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PROKHLADNY, Russia  - Chechens elect a new  president Sunday, 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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BBC News Online examines the background to the conflict in Chechnya.
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Despite the apparent death of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, a new breed of insurgents could be harder to defeat
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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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Russia began counting the cost on Saturday at the end of a siege of a school captured by Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast fresh doubts on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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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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Terrorism in Russia took on horrifying proportions in August and early September when more than 400 people were killed in four separate incidents in a span of less than two weeks.
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UP to seven people were killed today in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
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His government had just suffered one of Russia&#39;s worst terrorist attacks, apparently stemming from a war he has neither won nor ended.
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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 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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The Kremlin candidate won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but now faces a struggle to keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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The massacre of children by Muslim terrorists in southern Russia has widened a rift between Washington and Moscow on how to resolve the conflict in Chechnya and threatened to undermine the