Russia: the losing battle against terrorism and insurgency
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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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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
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A list of incidents blamed on terrorists in Russia since December 2002:
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MOSCOW - The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept...
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MOSCOW, December 25 (Itar-Tass) - The CIS Interior Minister Council at its meeting in Moscow adopted joint anti-terrorist measures, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told reporters after the meeting.
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MOSCOW - The discovery of traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously this week has confirmed a widely suspected terrorist connection and stoked speculation that the disasters were linked to bloodshed in Chechnya.    A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the crashes, which killed 90 people, were retaliation for Russia's protracted civil war in the troubled republic, which holds an election Sunday to replace its assassinated Kremlin-backed president...
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NALCHIK, Russia  - Find Moscow on a map of Russia,  trace a line south until you hit the Caucasus mountains, and  you are pointing at the heart of Russia's war on terror.
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For years, Chechnya's war and misery has been a wound in Russia's side that festered through mistreatment and neglect. After last week's school hostage tragedy, which followed twin airline explosions and a suicide bombing in Moscow just days before, the region's ills threaten to engulf the entire nation.
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President Vladimir Putin says he will fight terror by consolidating security agencies and further tightening political control over the country. But his tough tactics risk alienating the public support he needs, and allies abroad seem to be ignoring his pleas to crack down on Chechen separatists.
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NEW YORK, Dec 8 (IPS) - The popular image of Russia in the West today is of   a land of post-Soviet oligarchs, oil company billionaires  languishing in  jail, President Vladimir Putin ruthlessly  centralising his power by  replacing provincial governors, civil  liberties being abused, and, of  course, the 10-year war in  Chechnya with the resulting unthinkable murder  of hundreds of  children in Beslan.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Chechen attacks highlight Russia's failure to crush a rebellion
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BESLAN, Russia - A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 340 people - nearly half of them children - were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.    Putin went on national television to tell Russians that they must mobilize against terrorism and promised wide-ranging reforms to toughen security forces and purge corruption...
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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The spate of terrorist attacks in Russia illustrates that President Vladimir V. Putin&#39;s hard-line policy in Chechnya is failing to resolve that conflict or to make Russians safer.
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The rhetoric is identical, but as Russia echoes the United States in designating &quot;international terrorism&quot; a top strategic threat, experts say it lacks the means to turn word into deed to counter the danger.
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