Russia blamed for Chechen disappearance
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russian military forces were responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of a young man during the war in Chechnya six years ago, and awarded his mother $44,000 in damages.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The mystery surrounding the reported death last week of a Canadian in war-torn Chechnya deepened Friday with word another B.C. man with him apparently is missing.
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MOSCOW  - Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week's near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive used in past attacks blamed on Chechen separatists.
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Russian investigators said Friday that they found traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of the two planes that crashed almost simultaneously earlier this week killing 89 people. It was the strongest indication yet that terrorists were behind the twin tragedies.
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One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the action was connected to Russia's fight against Chechen separatists.
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BUCHALKI, Russia - Russian officials searched for clues Wednesday as to what caused two airliners to plunge to earth almost simultaneously, killing all 89 people aboard and raising concerns of a terrorist strike. Officials said one of the jets sent a distress signal that may have indicated a hijacking...
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Investigators pinned hope on black boxes  on Thursday to explain why two Russian planes crashed almost  simultaneously, killing at least 89 people and raising fears of  terrorism ahead of polls in rebel Chechnya.
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The Russia government has offered a $10  million reward for information to help it hunt down Chechen  rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, accused by  Moscow of being behind last week's school siege, news agencies  reported on Wednesday.
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BBC News Online examines the background to the conflict in Chechnya.
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MOSCOW - Traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of one of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week, the Federal Security Service said Friday, a day after a top official acknowledged that terrorism was most likely behind the crashes.    A Web site known for militant Muslim comment, meanwhile, published a claim of responsibility for downing the two planes, connecting the action to Russia's fight against separatists in Chechnya...
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Nine Russians are still missing following the deadly car bomb attacks on tourist resorts along the Egyptian-Israeli border which left 33 people dead last week, including at least one Russian national, Russia's consul in Egypt said.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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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 on Thursday observed a day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious double air disaster, which some fear could have been a terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict:
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MOSCOWâA terrorist attack brought down at least one of the two planes in this week&#39;s near-simultaneous crashes in Russia, authorities said yesterday after investigators sifting through the wreckage found traces of an explosive at one of the crash sites.
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Chechen attacks highlight Russia's failure to crush a rebellion