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CHECHNYA: FATE OF RUSSIANS LIVING IN AREA IS UNCERTAIN
Russian/Nat
As Chechens go the polls on Monday, the fate of Russians living in Chechnya is uncertain.
They've become scapegoats in the aftermath of the 21-month war with Russia -- even though many have lived in Chechnya for...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: FIGHTING INTENSIFIES
Eng/Russian/Natsot
Survivors of an attack on a convoy of Chechen refugees fleeing the besieged city of Grozny, have claimed that Russian troops who opened fire on them were crazed on alcohol and drugs.
At least nine people are known...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIANS BOMB PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
Russian/Nat
Russian warplanes bombed the presidential palace in the Chechen capital of Grozny Thursday, less than a day after Boris Yeltsin ordered a halt to air strikes on the city.
There's also been heavy fighting on the ground...
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INGUSHETIA: UNHCR SADAKO OGATA VISIT
Eng/Russ/Nat
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has seen first hand the plight of tens of thousands of cilivians who have fled Russia's military campaign in Chechnya.
Sadako Ogata met with only a handful of Chechens living...
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Russia - Oppressed Nations Congress
Russia's turbulent relationship with its ethnic border regions was
the subject of a so-called Oppressed Nations Congress in Chechnya
Friday (9/12). More then 250-delegates representing the so-called
Oppressed Nations of the former Soviet...
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Rights advocates and liberal politicians try to jump-start peace process
1. Exterior Cosmos conference hall in Moscow
2. Wide shot conference opening
3. Conference audience
4. Photos displayed on front of podium
5. Conference participants
6. Conference
7. Liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky addresses the...
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Chechnya - Fighting Continues In Gudermes
Heavy fighting continued on Tuesday (19/12) in Gudermes, Chechnya's second largest town. Simultaneously, demonstrations of more than a thousand people took place just outside of the city limits.
ws of a demo, civilians marching together...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT LATEST
Russian/Nat
Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russian forces planned to seal off Chechnya's southern mountains in order to defeat the remaining rebels.
Putin said that with the rebels cut off, forces would be...
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Russia/Chechnya - Fighting
1,000 at Moscow anti-war demo; Argun residents flee
More than 1,000 people on Sunday (5/2) attended a Moscow
demonstration organised by the Front for National Resistance
(FNR),a group formed to protest against the Kremlin's...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: YELTSIN DEMANDS EXPLANATION ON GROZNY BOMBING
Russian/Nat
An angry President Yeltsin demanded Friday to know why his orders to stop bombing the Chechen capital Grozny have not been obeyed.
At a meeting of Russia's security council in Moscow, Mr Yeltsin looked directly at his ...
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RUSSIA: CHECHEN LEADER DUDAYEV IS REPORTED TO BE KILLED
Russian/Nat
Russian news agency reports have claimed that Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed this week in a missile attack in southwestern Chechnya.
The announcement was apparently made by Dudayev's ousted government and...
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INGUSHETIA BORDER: SECURITY FORCES CLAMP DOWN ON REFUGEES
Russian/Nat
Security forces on the Chechen-Ingushetia border on Thursday clamped down on refugees trying to cross the border, violently detaining one man.
Russian generals have insisted on stricter checks at the border with neighbouring...
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CHECHNYA: SHOOTING BREAKS OUT AS PEACE TALKS ARE SUSPENDED
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Shooting broke out in the Chechen capital of Grozny Tuesday after Russian and Chechen negotiators suspended peace talks without signing a long-awaited political agreement.
Chechen rebels using automatic rifles and grenade...
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Chechnya - Situation
Planes hit Argun, rebel morale stays high
Chechen rebels confirmed on Wednesday (8/2) that they had decided
to withdraw their military headquarters from Grozny, but will keep
fighters in the city. The Russian military, meanwhile, told...
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CHECHNYA / DAGESTAN - FIRST DELIVERY OF AID
The first load of humanitarian aid from the United Nations
Children's Fund arrived in Dagestan, southern Russia, on Saturday
(28/1). The aid is intended for thousands of refugees who have
left the Chechen capital, Grozny, to escape the...
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Chechnya - Ceasefire continues to hold in Grozny
Long columns of Russian lorries and armoured personnel carriers left the
Chechen capital, Grozny, on Wednesday (28/8) as the ceasefire continued to hold.
WS Russian trucks pulling out of Grozny;
Pan tanks full of Russian...
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Chechen leader's rival shot dead in Dubai, STILLS, analyst, file
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Hankala Airport, military base outside Grozny - September 16, 2007
1. STILL showing Sulim Yamadayev in uniform
2. STILL of Yamadayev in uniform
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RUSSIA: RUSSIAN MUSLIMS MARK END OF RAMADAN
Russian/Nat
Muslims in Russia have welcomed the declaration of a ceasefire in the battle for the Chechen capital Grozny.
Acting President Vladimir Putin announced the temporary cessation of hostilities over the weekend as both Christians...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: FRONTLINE
Russian/Nat
Russian forces have regained control of two key Chechen towns partially overrun by rebel fighters last Sunday.
Nevertheless, top generals were forced to admit they'd made tactical errors in their battle against the...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: REACTION TO EMBASSY GRENADE ATTACK
Russian/Eng/Nat
The Kremlin has expressed grave concerns after a grenade attack on the Russian embassy in Beirut left a police guard dead.
But Dmitry Yakushkin, previously Boris Yeltsin's spokesman and now deputy chief of administration,...
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Chechnya - Russian/Chechen Peace Talks Resume
Russian and separatist Chechen delegations on Thursday (20/7)
resumed peace talks in Grozny in yet another effort to try and
resolve the conflict. After a one hour delay because the Chechen
side was late, the talks finally started at...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: REPORTS OF DUDAYEV'S DEATH ARE CONFIRMED (1)
Russian/Nat
The deputy to Chechen separatist leader General Dzhokhar Dudayev has confirmed Russian reports that Dudayev is dead.
The Grozny mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (O-S-C-E) received a written...
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RUSSIA: PARLIAMENTARY HEARING ON CONFLICT IN CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
The war in Chechnya again took centre stage in Moscow today.
Parliamentary hearings into the conflict opened as well as a week of
anti-war demonstrations.
And the war is just as unpopular with those forced to participate....
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Chechnya - Police Station Captured
Russian troops have stormed and recaptured a police station held
by rebel fighters in the Chechen town of Argun Monday (21/8). Using tanks, armoured vehicles and helicopter gunships they forced the Chechen fighters out of the...