Pro-Kremlin President Alu Alkhanov Takes Power in Chechnya
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Chechnya has inaugurated its latest pro-Moscow leader, Alu Alkhanov, in a ceremony kept secret to all but a few due to heightened security concerns.
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The Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has got 73.48 percent of the ballots in Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s Chechen republic, assuring his landslide victory, the election commission said Monday.
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GROZNY. Aug 30 (Interfax) - Alu Alkhanov, who according to initial vote counts is believed to have won Sunday&#39;s Chechen presidential election, said he is going to concentrate on accelerating the restoration
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A pro-Kremlin former policeman has become president of Chechnya, according to partial results last night of an election held after a week of rebel attacks made a mockery of Moscow&#39;s claim to have pacified the republic.
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Chechnya's pro-Kremlin leader was sworn in as president of the turbulent Russian region Tuesday and acknowledged immediately he was a prime target for assassination by separatists.
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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia&#39;s regions Monday and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus as he appointed a new government chief of staff after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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ALU Alkhanov, Chechnyaâs president-elect, yesterday pledged to bring peace and stability to his war-torn southern Russian region, a day after the Kremlin-backed candidate won a vote tainted by allegations of fraud and overshadowed by fears of terrorism.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become the new president of rebel Chechnya in a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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President Vladimir Putin announced radical changes to Russia&#39;s democratic institutions yesterday that will give the Kremlin greater power than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The former security chief of Nagorno-Karabakh was sworn in Friday as the new president of the Armenian-controlled breakaway region.
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GROZNY, Russia Under heavy security and with few voters visible in this hushed and abandoned capital, the republic of Chechnya on Sunday held a special presidential election, a step toward replacing a predecessor who was killed by a bomb.
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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 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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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov was sworn in Tuesday as Chechnya's president in a heavily guarded ceremony seen as another step in the Kremlin's strategy to undermine rebels in this war-ravaged region.
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Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya elected Alu Alkhanov president in a poll held to replace Akhamad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May.
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A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya after a vote that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled republic but which was nonetheless punctuated by violence.
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MOSCOW , Russia -- Alu Alkhanov, set to become Chechnya&#39;s president after Sunday&#39;s election, on Monday ruled out any possibility of talks with Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov.