Pardon move angers Chechens
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Hundreds of Chechens protest against moves to pardon a former Russian colonel who strangled a Chechen teenager.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict:
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GROZNY -- Former colonel Yury Budanov, who was convicted last year of kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman, on Tuesday withdrew his request for a pardon after it drew outrage and protests in Chechnya and opposition from prosecutors and human rights
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Amid high concern over rebel attacks, voters in Russia&#39;s war-torn republic of Chechnya began on Sunday to elect a successor to their former slain president.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin faced a  dilemma Monday over whether to pardon an army colonel who  strangled a Chechen schoolgirl, risking upsetting allies in  Chechnya on the one hand or his powerful military on the other.
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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town  of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the  eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving  memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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Several thousand people gathered for a sanctioned meeting in the Chechen capital Grozny to protest a possible pardon for former Russian Army officer Yuri Budanov, Russian news agencies report.
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Col. Yuri Budanov, a Russian officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman he accused of being a sniper, was pardoned by a regional amnesty commission, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
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There has been more violence in the strife-torn republic of Chechnya, just days before the Russian region is due to elect a new president.
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Thousands of Russian soldiers and Chechen police are on round-the-clock vigils. Russian forces claim to have killed dozens of separatist fighters. Chechen police have orders to open fire on anyone wearing a mask.
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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Chechen warlord and Beslan mastermind Shamil Basayev scoffs at rumours of his demise.
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GROZNY, Russia : The Kremlin-anointed career police officer elected Chechnya&#39;s new leader in a vote condemned by many observers vowed to consign separatist extremists to the &quot;dustbin of history&quot;.
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Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
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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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Russia&#39;s foreign minister criticized Western countries for granting asylum to Chechen separatists, who Moscow blames from last week&#39;s bloody school hostage taking, saying the practice
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Russia's war-torn Chechnya is to shoot anyone wearing a mask in towns after a bloody raid by rebels.