Kremlin Man Heads for Win in Tense Chechnya Poll
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A Moscow-backed policeman was set to become rebel Chechnya's new president in a fraught election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the attacker was killed.
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Russia is poised for a general election campaign highly influenced by President Putin's popularity, Steven Eke writes.
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The Kremlinâs favoured candidate for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, Russian news agencies reported today.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya's presidential election but faces a struggle  controlling the warring region and subduing a resurgent  separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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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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The Kremlin&#39;s choice for president of Chechya, Alu Alkhanov, has won the troubled region&#39;s presidential election, officials said today.
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Preliminary results gave victory to Alu  Alkhanov in Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, with the  Moscow-backed policeman winning more than 50 percent of the  vote, the region's acting president was quoted as saying.
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Russia&#39;s restive republic of Chechnya will elect a president to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow leader killed last May, the BBC reported Sunday.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become rebel Chechnya's president after a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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Russia's presidential election campaign is set to begin, with Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev the clear favourite.
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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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As voters went to the polls Sunday in Chechnya, there was little doubt about who would be anointed president of the embattled Russian
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by allegations of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.
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Opponents have questioned the Chechen election win of Alu Alkhanov, who vowed to triumph over the region&#39;s rebels. Mr Alkhanov, Moscow&#39;s preferred candidate, was officially reported to have won more than 73.
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted on Sunday  for a new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- Chechens this weekend are choosing a replacement for their assassinated president -- the Kremlin hoping the vote will bring some stability to a region racked by a decade of violence.
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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.