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Lawyer of suspect in journalist's death speaks, names released
Moscow - 28 August 2007
1. Wide of Murat Musayev, the lawyer representing Djabrail Mahmoudov, walking into studio at radio station
2. Close of microphones
3. Wide of Musayev with radio hosts
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Murat Musayev,...
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Chechnya - Civilian Family Shot At Home
Seven Chechen civilians were shot in their homes in Grozny on
Friday (7/7) by unidentified masked gunmen. One man, Makhmud
Cahpanov, and his three children, Khasan, Khussein and Liza, and
their relative, Adam Manayev, were shot while...
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Chechnya - Bombing Strategic Spots
Russian forces concentrated their fire on fresh water springs in
a suburb of the Chechen capital, Grozny on Saturday (21/1). The
northeastern Grozny suburb of Chernorechiye came under a fierce
mortar bombardment close to a dam where...
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Chechnya/Austria - Situation
Russia agrees to OSCE mission as bombardment intensifies The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday (12/1) said it would send a mission to Chechnya to try to resolve the conflict. The OSCE's standing...
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CHECHNYA: RADIO LIBERTY REPORTER APPEARS ON VIDEO
Natural Sound
A video broadcast on Wednesday on Russian television purportedly showed a Radio Liberty reporter who went missing last week in Chechnya - alive for the first time in nearly a week.
But the authenticity of the tape has...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: HEAVIEST BOMBING SO FAR
Nat/Sot
The Chechen capital suffered its heaviest bombing early Thursday morning, as Russian jets pounded the city setting a refinery ablaze.
According to the Russian Interfax news agency, Moscow has also sent two battalions of marines...
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Chechnya - Bitter fighting continues
Chechen rebels on Tuesday (13/8) continued to control the centre of the Chechen capital of Grozny. Despite reports to the contrary from Russian sources, the separatist fighters moved freely in some areas of the city and reinforced their...
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Chechnya - Peace Talks Begin In Grozny
Russian and Chechen officials on Thursday (25/5) began peace talks
in Grozny, the shattered capital of the breakaway republic of
Chechnya. The talks involved representatives of the
Chechen rebels, the Kremlin and the Moscow-backed...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BORIS YELTSIN AT AWARDS CEREMONY
Russian/Nat
Russian tanks and jets continue to pound the Chechen capital, Grozny, on Wednesday.
Russian forces claim to have captured four key villages in Chechnya, which lie along a strategically important highway running east to the...
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Chechnya - Fighting Continues
Fighting continued in Russia's breakaway Chechnya region on Sunday
(5/2). There were reports of shelling near Argun, 20 kms east of
Grozny. Smoke could be seen rising from the skeletal ruins of
shelled houses as dazed residents wandered...
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RUSSIA: NEW PEACE PLAN FOR CHECHNYA IS UNDER DISCUSSION
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's Security Council will meet Friday to discuss a new peace plan for the Chechen conflict.
After the renewed hostilities in the Chechen capital Grozny last week, the pressure is now on President Yeltsin to come up...
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RUSSIA: IRAQI DEPUTY PM AZIZ MEETS IVANOV
Russian/Arabic/Nat
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has been meeting Russian officials to seek their help in easing United Nations sanctions against his country.
Russia favours the easing or lifting of sanctions against Iraq and...
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Chechnya - Yeltsin Orders Grozny Bombing Halt
President Boris Yeltsin ordered a halt to Russian bombing of the
battered Chechen capital Grozny from midnight (21OO GMT) on
Wednesday (4/1) to prevent any further civilian deaths. But Chechen
rebels were in full control of the centre...
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Trial continues of three men accused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya
1. Various of pedestrians in Moscow streets
2. Wide of Russian flag on roof of Moscow Regional Military Court
3. Wide of people gathered outside military court
4. Mid of military court spokesman Alexander Minchanovsky with media
5....
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INGUSHETIA: RUSSIAN TROOPS POUR INTO CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
Russian troops have continued pouring into Chechnya, setting the stage for an expected showdown over key cities in the breakaway region.
According to official estimates, the total number of refugees in the neighbouring...
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Switzerland - Ghali Offers UN Help In Chechnya
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali offered UN help to
promote democracy in Chechnya at a meeting in Geneva on Saturday
(21/1) with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. "We can help
them in the field of promoting democracy,"...
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Russia - Troops Seal Off Gudermes
While Russian troops sealed off the town of Gudermes, which has
been under siege for more than a week, Chechen rebel leader Aslan
Maskhadov unsuccessfully sought a peaceful settlement to the
conflict on Thursday (21/12). Maskhadov said...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN ARMY TAKE CONTROL OF SHALI
Natural Sound
Chechen rebels have been telling of their desperate struggle to hold their last major stronghold, which fell to the Russians on Friday.
They say they stayed until the last possible moment in defence of Shali.
The loss...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: REFUGEES FACE INCREASING HARDSHIP
Russian/Nat
Fierce fighting in western Chechnya is reported to have spilled over into neighbouring Ingushetia.
The Interfax news agency says Russian troops are advancing on the Ingush village of Arshty - which is said to be harboring...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN SOLDIERS BEGIN TO RETURN HOME
Russian/Nat
After nearly two years of bloody fighting in Chechnya, Russian soldiers are starting to return home.
Tens of thousands of young men, exposed to the most gruesome war scenes, are bringing their experiences back to their...
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Chechnya/Ingushetia - Chechen Refugees Die In Coac
Ten Grozny refugees die in coach blast horror
Ten people were killed and 13 wounded on Monday (6/3) when a bus
evacuating Chechen refugees from Grozny hit an anti-tank mine.
The dead included an eight-year-old boy and his mother as well...
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Protest as Putin arrives for trade visit overshadowed by differences over Syria
1. Motorcade carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin driving through Istanbul
2. Putin's limousine pulling up outside Turkish prime minister's office in Istanbul's Dolmabahce neighbourhood
3. Russian and Turkish flag outside...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN BACKS OFF FROM ASSAULT ON GROZNY
Russian/Nat
Russia has backed off from its threat to launch an all-out assault on Grozny, and has instead opened a second corridor for civilians to flee the besieged Chechen capital.
Russian army sources claim that since last week's...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: ANTI WAR IN CHECHNYA PROTESTS
English/Nat
Anti-war protesters gathered in central Moscow late on Thursday to protest the war in Chechnya.
A mixed group of peace protestors and Buddhist monks chanted anti-war slogans outside the Defence Ministry.
On a cold, snowy...