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Chechnya - Russo-Chechen Talks Collapse After A Fe
Russo-Chechen talks collapse after a few hours
Peace talks between Russia and Chechen rebels broke down after less than four hours in Grozny on Thursday (25/4). Usman Imayev, the Chechen negotiator representing separatist leader Dzhokhar...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT LATEST
Russian/Nat
Russian forces say they are making progress toward taking Grozny and have control of a considerable part of the Chechen capital.
But Chechen snipers continue to pin down Russian troops trying to advance in the streets of...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIANS MOUNT HEAVY ATTACK ON GROZNY
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Russian planes and guns pounded the Chechen capital again on Friday.
Heavy air and artillery attacks mainly targeted the presidential palace and a nearby bridge.
There are unconfirmed reports that the Chechen leader...
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RUSSIA: GENERAL ALEXANDER LEBED
Russian/Nat
One of Russia's most respected military commanders, General Alexander Lebed, says Boris Yeltsin's days as President could be numbered.
Speaking exclusively Wednesday to APTV, Lebed harshly criticised Yeltsin for sending ...
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CHECHNYA: GROZNY: KILLING OF FAMILY THREATENS PEACE TALKS
Russian/Nat
Thousands of angry Chechens demonstrated outside peace talks Friday, accusing Russian soldiers of killing seven members of a family, including a toddler, in a murderous looting raid at a farm north of Grozny.
The brutal...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN PRISONER REUNITED
Russian/Nat
A Russian prisoner of war was reunited with his mother in Chechnya on Friday - in extraordinary circumstances.
The 19 year old was being held by the mother of a local Chechen commander.
She kept him safe until HIS mother...
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Chechnya - Russian Forces Pound Villages
Russian forces continued to pound several Chechen villages on
Sunday (7/4) despite a ceasefire announced by President Boris
Yeltsin a week ago, forcing residents to flee their homes.
Russian forces have been concentrating their "special...
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RUSSIA: E-C - CHECHEN CONFLICT VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS
French/Russian/Nat
The European Council said on Thursday Russia was violating human rights in the Russian-held areas of the rebel province of Chechnya and neighbouring regions.
The council's human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles...
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RUSSIA: RUSSIA TO TAKE PART AT G7 SUMMIT IN CANADA
Russian/Eng/ Nat
For the first time Russia will be taking part in working sessions at a G-7 summit.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin wants his country to be given full membership of the group, making it G-8.
But despite the recent...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BORIS YELTSIN: NO PEACE TALKS
Eng/Russian/ Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin says he won't hold peace talks with the leader of the breakaway region of Chechnya, General Dzhokhar Dudayev.
Yeltsin's announcement comes just hours before a ceasefire is due
to begin in...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN PEACE TALKS WITH CHECHEN REBELS POSTPONED
Russian/Nat
Russia's Security Chief Alexander Lebed has returned to Moscow after peace talks with Chechen rebels hit a stumbling block.
He says the negotiations have been postponed because of "legal difficulties".
Despite the problems...
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Chechnya - Arrival International observers
International observers began arriving in Grozny on Saturday (25/1) ahead of Monday's (27/1) presidential elections.
The 75 observers sent by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be under 24 hour armed...
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CHECHNYA: GROZNY: NEW RUSSIAN GROUND FORCE ATTACKS
Russian/Nat
The Russian military says its forces have unleashed new ground attacks in a bid to capture the centre of Grozny.
Pro-Moscow Chechen fighters and Russian Interior Ministry troops are trying to advance on the Chechen capital,...
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RUSSIA: BORIS YELTSIN AGAINST CHECHNYA PEACE TALKS CLAIM
Russian/Nat
The Russian human rights commissioner says President Boris Yeltsin is against peace talks to end the continued fighting in Chechnya.
Sergei Kovalyov, who recently returned from the war-torn region, says that Yeltsin may have...
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WRAP President meets Muslim/Sikh leaders
1. President Bush with Arab leaders.
2. Close up of president's hand on the Koran.
3. Media pan to mid shot of Bush.
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President
"I consider bin Laden an evil man. And I don't think there's...
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RUSSIA: PROTEST AGAINST CHECHEN WAR
Russian/Nat
Several hundred Russians have taken to the streets of Moscow to protest against the war in Chechnya.
The demonstrators demanded an immediate stop to hostilities and the withdrawal of Russian army conscripts from the...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: LATEST SITUATION
Russian/Nat
Grozny came under one of the most intense Russian attacks yet on Monday.
Shells rained down on the centre of the city and waves of Russian helicopter gunships and jets carried out repeated aerial bombardments.
But Chechen...
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RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: COSSACKS CONCERNED OVER FUTURE AFTER ELECTIONS
Russian/Nat
As Chechens prepare to vote on Monday for a pro-independence president and parliament, ethnic Russians still living in the breakaway republic are worried about their future.
Tens of thousands of Russians - many of them...
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Chechnya - 47 Russians Captured
Russia confirmed on Monday that 47 of its servicemen had been
captured when its troops entered the rebel region of Chechnya on
Sunday (11/12). A spokeswoman for a special government information
centre on Chechnya said the servicemen had...
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RUSSIA: EUROPEAN AMBASSADORS DISCUSS CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
Amid growing international condemnation of the Russian military campaign in Chechnya, Russian ministers have met with a group of European ambassadors in Moscow.
The two groups discussed the current crisis in the breakaway...
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Chechnya - Russian Forces Drive Into Mountains
Intensive fighting between Russian federal forces and rebel forces
loyal to Chechen President Dzhokar Dudayev continued on Sunday
(28/5) in Chechnya. Russian forces shelled Chechen positions with
heavy artillery. Chechen forces responded...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: MIDDLE EAST PEACE SETTLEMENT TALKS
Hebrew/Russian
Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy spent Thursday in Moscow in talks mostly concerned with the Middle East peace settlement.
Levy met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov.
Putin announced...
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Russian man kept as slave in Chechnya prepares to return
1. Hotel in Tbilisi where Vladimir Yepishin was staying
2. Yepishin leaving the hotel
3. Sign "Hotel"
4. Yepishin throwing away his old clothes
5. Old clothes in rubbish skip
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Yepishin
"In Chechnya, I was...
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Ingushetia - Red Cross Brings Aid To Chechnya
The International Red Cross on Saturday (7/1) delivered medical
supplies to a hospital in Novi Agati, Ingushetia near the Chechen
border. The two jeeps and a transport truck delivered Swiss
medicines to the local hospital.
As the aid...