Chechens to Elect New Leader in Shadow of Violence
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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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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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With a sense of foreboding, Chechnya prepared on Saturday for a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader as rebels vowed to keep up their attacks in the war-torn republic.
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Moscow, Oct. 6. (UNI): The new President of war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov took the oath of office in Grozny, the Chechen capital, amid very tight security throughout the region.
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Chechnya&#039;s new separatist leader has named warlord Shamil Basayev, wanted by Russia for a string of shocking terrorist attacks, as his vice president in a move that could signal a radicalization of the Chechen rebel movement.
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Chechnya&#39;s new leader vowed on Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists, after winning an election condemned by rights groups as a stage-managed show and by Washington as seriously flawed.
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THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC of Chechnya got a new president Sunday -- but congratulations to Alu Alkhanov, the career police officer taking over the job, don&#39;t really seem to be in order.
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GROZNY, Russia - Against a backdrop of war, squalor and terrorism, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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Chechens marked the birthday of their murdered leader, days ahead of an election to replace him at the helm of the Caucasus republic where a five-year guerrilla war shows no signs of dying down.
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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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Afghans are expected to democratically elect their president for the first time on 9 October. The candidates are a mix of old and new faces, representing an array of ethnic and regional interests.
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Voting is under way in Russia&#39;s breakaway region of Chechnya to select a replacement for a president who was killed in a bomb attack.
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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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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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GROZNY, Russia  - Chechnya's new leader vowed on  Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists  after winning an election condemned by a rights group as a show  stage-managed by Moscow.
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov was sworn in as Chechnya's president Tuesday in a heavily guarded ceremony seen as another step in the Kremlin's strategy to undermine rebels in the war-ravaged region, Russian media reported.