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CLEAN: Chechen leader plays Brazil in unlikely match
Delirious Chechen fans were spectators to an improbable scene on Tuesday: their leader Ramzan Kadyrov scored a goal against Brazil after squandering two penalties in an unlikely football match aimed at self-promotion. Grozny, Checnyy,...
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CLEAN : Cannes Presents: The Search
French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius of The Artist fame presents The Search at the Cannes Film Festival a story set during the second Chechen war and starring Berenice Bejo
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CLEAN : US police snare Boston bomb suspect
CLEAN : US police snare Boston bomb suspect
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CLEAN : Boston reacts to bombing suspect capture
CLEAN : Boston reacts to bombing suspect capture
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CLEAN: Rebuilding Chechnya, after two bloody wars
CLEAN: Rebuilding Chechnya, after two bloody wars
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CLEAN : Chechnya policeman confesses involvement in Nemtsov murder
A Russian court on Sunday charged two men with the murder of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov including an ex police officer from Chechnya who confessed to his involvement in the brazen assassination
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CLEAN: Five years on, unsolved Politkovskaya murder haunts Russia
CLEAN: Five years on, unsolved Politkovskaya murder haunts Russia
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VOICED : Rusos protestan contra Charlie Hebdo
VOICED : Rusos protestan contra Charlie Hebdo
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CLEAN : Ukraine forces completely clear part of separatist east
CLEAN : Ukraine forces completely clear part of separatist east
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CLEAN : Father of Chechen killed in Boston
CLEAN : Father of Chechen killed in Boston
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CLEAN : Suspect in Nemtsov killing likely confessed under torture
CLEAN : Suspect in Nemtsov killing likely confessed under torture
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CLEAN : FILE: Nemtsov murder suspect likely confessed under torture
CLEAN : FILE: Nemtsov murder suspect likely confessed under torture
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CLEAN : Georgia shows off skull thought to
CLEAN : Georgia shows off skull thought to
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CLEAN : Macron says will be vigilant on human rights in Chechnya
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday after meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Versailles that he would be vigilant on human rights and LGBT people in Chechnya and that Putin had promised to reveal the complete...
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CLEAN : London: protest over reported anti gay crackdown in Chechnya
Several dozen people gather in front of the Russian embassy in London to protest the reported crackdown on gay men in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya three days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there are no facts...
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CLEAN : Gay Chechen dreams of normal life after escape to France
After escaping to Moscow Azmad has become the first Chechen to benefit from a French association's efforts to secure emergency humanitarian visas for gay Chechens in fear for their lives
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CLEAN : Dozens in Paris rally in support of gay Chechens
Dozens of people rally at a kiss-in in front of the Russian embassy in Paris to denounce the treatment of gay men in the conservative Russian province of Chechnya
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CLEAN : Russia sentences Nemtsov hitmen to lengthy jail terms
A Russian court hands lengthy jail terms to five Chechen men convicted of the contract killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as his allies insist the masterminds remain unidentified
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CLEAN : Rare look at medieval Chechnyan necropolis
The Chechnyan necropolis of Tsoi-Pede is believed to be one of the largest medieval cemeteries in the Caucasus but after years of war and neglect the remote historic site and the access road leading to it are falling into disrepair
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CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: Aerial images of Kurush Dagestan
Kurush is a mountain village in southern Dagestan
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CLEAN : Motocross revs back to life in southern Russia
For the first time since the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Motocross Championship took place in Russia's southern region of Dagestan last weekend reviving a pastime that was popular in the region in the late 70s and early 80s
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CLEAN : Gay Russian speaks out on police torture in Chechnya
A gay man living in Chechnya went public on Monday to describe his detention and torture by police during a crackdown on homosexuals in the region ruled by strongman Ramzan Kadryov
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CLEAN : Russian women desperately seek daughters who joined IS fighters
The women mostly come from the regions of Chechnya Dagestan and Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus and have lost touch with their daughters who left to join the Islamic State jihadist group
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CLEAN : Putin assassination plot suspect wounded, wife killed in Ukraine
A Chechen volunteer soldier who was accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin is wounded and his wife killed when their car was strafed by gunfire near Kiev