No iron fist in Chechnya
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President Vladimir Putin was thoroughly justified in his outrage at the Beslan atrocities, but there was an ominous tone to his suggestion that part of the problem was that Western powers were mucking around in the Caucasus, or that Russia was vulnerable
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Alan Parastayev's family says he was beaten and then refused urgent medical treatment in prison. But there is nothing they can do about it because the state holding him in jail does not officially exist.
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MOSCOW : Attacks by Chechen separatists late Saturday in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic, left people several dead, including pro-Russian policemen, Russian news agencies reported, quoting pro-Russian officials.
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Chechnya is often called a breakaway republic, but the militant separatists who have harried Russian forces for more than a decade and struck with bold attacks within and beyond the mostly Muslim region's borders are a relatively small segment of a population long tired of bloodshed.
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Description: There&#39;s a presidential election Sunday in Chechnya to replace the man who was assassinated earlier this year. The election has been overshadowed by the twin airplane crashes in Russia, which are now attributed to Chechen terrorists.
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GROZNY, August 29 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Chechens Sunday, August 29, voted in an election to replace their slain pro-Moscow as another Kremlin-backed candidate was to win though seven others are standing in the race.
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GROZNY, Russia Under heavy security and with few voters visible in this hushed and abandoned capital, the republic of Chechnya on Sunday held a special presidential election, a step toward replacing a predecessor who was killed by a bomb.
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Even as Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, hundreds of thousands joined rallies against terrorism.
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MOSCOW, Sep 25 (IPS) - A year after elections, little promise is in sight  for the development of free and independent media in the  autonomous republic of Chechnya.
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Armed attackers holding up to 400 people at a school in southern Russia&#39;s North Ossetia republic have refused to conduct talks with a regional Islamic leader, the Itar-Tass news agency said Wednesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has steadfastly refused to negotiate with Chechen extremists. But a TIME reconstruction of the events leading up to the slaughter at Beslan&#39;s School No.
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MOSCOW: Attacks by Chechen militants in Grozny, left 22 people dead including policemen and injured several others. Several Chechen guerrillas attacked a police station and polling station in the north of
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Chechen refugees in Georgia's once-notorious Pankisi Gorge say fear keeps them away from Russia, Neil Arun reports.
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Major human rights groups  snubbed a Moscow-sponsored rights conference in Chechnya on  Thursday, criticizing it as a sham designed to cover up abuses  in the troubled Caucasus 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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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ruled out any United Nations or other international role in resolving the Chechen crisis, saying it was up to Russia to find the right way of ending it.
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Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government on Thursday dismissed as a bluff a report on a Web site linked to separatist rebels that top leaders of the insurgency have called for a unilateral cease-fire in February.