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CHECHNYA/INGUSHETIA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT UPDATE
Russian/Nat
The Russian military operation in Chechnya continued on Friday - despite promises from Moscow that it would suspend some of its attacks on the capital Grozny.
Moscow's intentions appeared unclear after a senior military...
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INGUSHETIA: CHECHEN REFUGEES CRISIS
Russian/Nat
Russian forces have been continuing their assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny.
Moscow has intensified its bombardment of the city in the past week, leaving hundreds dead or wounded, destroying scores of buildings and...
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GERMANY: YEGOR GAIDAR
English/Nat
President Clinton is appealing to the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to change tactics in Chechnya.
In a letter to President Yeltsin, Mr Clinton said that the fighting is causing enormous civilian casualties.
Mr Yeltsin's...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CHECHEN REBELS TO CONTINUE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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Chechen separatist fighters are treated as heroes back in Chechnya after participating in the dramatic hostage taking raid earlier this month in the village of Pervomayskaya in neighboring Dagestan.
And Salman Raduyev,...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: TOWN CENTRE ABLAZE
Russian/Nat
Intense fighting in Grozny Saturday has left the centre of the Chechen capital ablaze.
Heavy Russian artillery and rockets set numerous buildings on fire, including the parliament.
On the ground, Russian forces appear to...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: ATTEMPTS TO WIPE OUT CHECHEN FIGHTERS
Russian/Nat
Russian troops have been attempting to wipe out the last remaining Chechen fighters in Grozny.
They have bombarded the south west of the city in an attempt to encircle the capital of the breakaway republic.
The latest attack...
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Russia - Russian Soldiers Attack Chechens
A brutal attack on two Chechen teenagers by a pair of drunk Russian soldiers in the Chechen captial of Grozny on Wednesday (5/6), served to highlight the tensions surrounding the latest round of peace talks between the Russian government...
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Referendum date set, planning work begins
1. Wide shot of exterior of Russia's central election commission
2. Close up of the Russian flag
3. Wide shot of press conference by Alexander Veshnyakov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission
4. Wide shot of journalists
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Chechnya - Attempt on Raduyev's life
Renegade Chechen guerilla leader Salman Raduyev has blamed the latest attempt to kill him on the Russian secret service. Raduyev was seriously wounded, and a bodyguard killed, when their car blew up on Tuesday (30/9).
It was the fourth...
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Court rules that anti-Islam movie can no longer be shown in country
1. Wide of Judge Evgeny Komassarov of Moscow Tverskoi court, entering courtroomn
2. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Evgeny Komassarov, judge:?
"The court has decided that the material presented by the deputy prosecutor of Moscow to be extremist....
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Chechnya - Attack On Rebel Positions
The western Chechen town of Bamut was pounded again on Tuesday (14/5), as as Federal forces blasted rebel positions with rocket-fire and heavy shelling. Inhabitants who fled Bamut said the artillery and rocket attacks were regular and...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIANS STEP UP THEIR OFFENSIVE
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Russia has stepped up its offensive against Chechnya - despite plans by President Boris Yeltsin to unveil a peace plan, Sunday.
The rebel stronghold village of Bamut, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the capital Grozny is the...
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Chechnya - Rebels Shell Russians
Russian troops who captured the village of Novogroznensky from Chechen separatists on Wednesday (21/2) were shelled by rebels said to have taken up positions in a village just six kilometres away. The rebels shelled Russian troops from...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: PAP-1 PRISON
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APTV has filmed inside a notorious Russian prison camp in Chechnya where inmates claim they were brutally tortured.
Although the camp, known as PAP-1, has now closed, there are believed to be many more such prison camps...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: BOMBING CONTINUES
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Russia continued its attacks on the breakaway republic of Chechnya today, bombing civilian and military targets as troops fought their way to the capital from two directions.
But Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev remained...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RED CROSS CONVOY ARRIVES IN GROZNY
English/Nat
Two cease-fire agreements have failed to halt the war in Chechnya, but Russian and Chechen military commanders returned to the negotiating table Friday for another try, extending the present "truce" until Sunday.
Despite the...
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USA: RUMOURS BIN LADEN INTENDS TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN
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The U-S says it has no confirmation of reports that Saudi-born terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden intends to leave Afghanistan.
Latest news reports suggest that the terrorist suspect has asked the Taliban - which controls most...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN FORCES POUND CHECHEN REBELS
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Russian forces pounded Chechen rebels with rockets and helicopter gunfire Friday, attacking rebel positions south of Chechnya's battered capital Grozny.
It was the fiercest assault for days.
The village of Orekhovo has...
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INGUSHETIA: REFUGEES FLEE VIOLENCE IN CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
Some 200,000 people have fled violence in Chechnya, most of them ending up in neighbouring Ingushetia.
The European Union as condemned all disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force in Chechnya which has given rise to...
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CHECHNYA: GROZNY: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: BODIES
Grozny, Chechnya - December 2, 1999 1. Panorama bomb crater and destroyed buildings2. Man stands in bomb crater3. Dog sniffs around wreckage4. Bloodstained ground5. Dead bodies laid out in row on ground6. Rebel looks at documents7. Pan...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: LATEST SITUATION
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Russian troops and Chechen rebels violated Boris Yeltsin's orders for a 48 hour ceasefire today.
Bursts of gunfire and sniper attack rang through the streets of Grozny early this morning.
War has taken a toll on the...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: CHECHEN DEMONSTRATION
Russian/Nat
Peace talks resumed in the Chechen capital Grozny Saturday between Russian negotiators and Chechen rebels.
The talks had almost been derailed by the murder of eight Chechen civilians Friday, allegedly by Russian...
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Ossetia - Grachev At Military Operations HQ
Uncertainty remains in Russia over the status of the Defence
Minister Pavel Grachev. On Wednesday (11/1), when the debate about his future surfaced, Grachev himself was in Mozdoc, North Ossetia, where the operational headquarters for the...