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RUSSIA: NEW ARMY RECRUITS TRAIN FOR COMBAT IN CHECHNYA
Russian/Nat
As the Russian army prepares itself for a lengthy battle to consolidate its hold over Chechnya, fresh troops are being trained to bring the breakaway republic to heel.
The new recruits face a gruelling test of their courage...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CHECHEN SOLDIER DESERTS
Russian/Nat
Russian president Boris Yeltsin has announced a suspension of air raids over Chechnya, but one young Russian soldier caught up in the fighting has decided enough is enough.
Eighteen year-old Sergei Zhukov hid in a garden...
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RUSSIA: PUTIN VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Russian/Nat
Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin has voted in the presidential election expected to sweep him to power with an overwhelming majority.
Many voters admire Putin's vigour and hope he can clean up the world's largest...
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TURKEY: OSCE SUMMIT LATEST
Russian/Eng/Nat
A combative Boris Yeltsin on Thursday took on Western leaders over Moscow's offensive in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
At the opening session of a two-day meeting of leaders in Istanbul, the Russian President said...
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RUSSIA: ALEXANDER LEBED'S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Russian/Eng/Nat
With the vote for president already underway in Chechnya, the Russian leadership is holding its breath, waiting to see who they will be dealing with in the separatist territory.
Moscow is said to favour Aslan Maskhadov,...
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Chechnya - Reactions to election results
Among those celebrating the victory of Chechen military chief Aslan Maskhadov in the Republic's Presidential elections on Wednesday (29/1) is the Russian Soldiers' Mothers' Committee.
The Soldiers' Mothers, who work to improve the plight...
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Chechnya - Top Chechen Commander Gives Interview
The top Chechen military commander, Aslan Maskhadov, in his first interview since the Chechen separatist president Djokhar Dudayev's death, called Dudayev's assasination a great mistake. Maskhadov is the most respected rebel commander...
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UK: US HOSTAGE RELEASED FROM CHECHNYA UPDATE
English/Nat
An American missionary and teacher has been released after being held for seven months in the southern Russian region of Chechnya.
During his captivity, kidnappers cut off one of his fingers to add weight to their ransom...
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Chechnya - Volunteers Vow To Resist Russians
Russian forces tightened their noose around central Grozny on
Sunday (15/1), bombarding the presidential palace with round after
round of artillery fire and penetrating deeper into the ruined
city. The Chechens have vowed to continue to...
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RUSSIA/DAGESTAN: RUSSIA/ISLAMIC REBELS CONFLICT UPDATE
Russian/Nat
Russian security forces claimed to have begun a massive military operation in Dagestan on Thursday to eliminate Islamic fundamentalist gunmen from several border villages in the Caucasus region.
Russian troops, assisted by...
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Chechnya - Basayev interview and burials
Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev says he will uphold his end of
the cease fire agreement with Russian troops, and would even be
willing to break off the current fighting in Grozny.
Speaking in an interview with WTN, Basayev said on...
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Chechnya - Russian troops pull out of Grozny
Long columns of Russian trucks and armoured personnel carriers left the Chechen capital, Grozny, on Wednesday (28/8) as the ceasefire continued to hold. Russian troops, watched by Chechen fighters, started clambering aboard their trucks...
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Growing anti-Arab racism among Israeli football fans as Muslim makes football debut
Jerusalem - 10 February 2013
1. Pan down from Teddy Stadium to supporters
2. Pan across supporter passing camera making hand gesture, UPSOUND: (Hebrew) "To all the lefty bastards"
3. Wide of Israeli police outside stadium
4. Tracking...
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CHECHNYA: UNEXPLODED MINES ARE REMINDER OF WAR
Russian/Nat
Russian troops may have withdrawn from Chechnya but they left behind a lethal reminder of the war - thousands of unexploded mines.
Many victims of the mines are children.
And doctors say the war won't be over for the...
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Funeral for campaigning journalist who died five years after brutal attack
11 April 2013
1. Various of Mikhail Beketov's coffin being placed on the stage
2. Mid of Evgeniya Chirikova, an opposition leader and ecological activist in the city of Khimki, where Beketov worked
3. Wide of opposition party member...
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Chechnya - Russians Try To Seize Dudayev's Palace
Russian tanks and soldiers tried to seize the presidential palace
in savage street fighting on Monday (9/1), while Chechen rebels
darted from house to house trying to knock out Russian armour.
Russia poured reinforcements toward the...
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Chechnya - Russian Troops & Continuing Battles
While the first serious peacetalks were being conducted in Grozny
on Thursday (25/5) to try and bring an end to the fighting in
Chechnya, Russians took up new positions in the foothills around
the city. Four hours after the talks began...
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Chechnya - Tribute To Chechen War Deportated
As Russian forces continued their bombardment of Chechnya on
Wednesday (22/2), a group of Russian politicians opposed to the
war arrived in neighbouring Ingushetia to commemorate the mass
deportation of Chechen and Ingushi people by...
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RUSSIA: ALBRIGHT COMMENTS ON CHECHEN CONFLICT
Moscow, Russia - 31 Jan 2000
1. Wide shot Mariott hotel, Moscow
2. Albright approaches camera
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Madeleine Albright, U-S Secretary of State
4. Cortege drives off
5. Wide shot Albright, Ivanov enters, handshake
6....
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY BOMBING
Russian/nat
Russian jets bombed the Chechen capital Grozny overnight Tuesday/Wednesday. Chechen officials say 120 people have reportedly been killed in the attack.
The latest bombing raid comes only a day after hundreds of thousands...
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RUSSIA: DAGESTAN: SECOND HOSTAGE CRISIS HAS ERUPTED
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A second Chechen hostage crisis has erupted.
About 30 workers have been seized at a power plant on the outskirts of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
It happened as Russian soldiers continued their attack on Chechen rebels...
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RUSSIA: ARRIVAL OF UK CHARITY WORKERS RELEASED FROM CHECHNYA
English/Nat
The two British charity workers kidnapped by Chechen rebels have arrived safely in Moscow after they were released from their 14 months in captivity.
Camilla Carr and Jon James were kidnapped in July 1997 while on a...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: REBELS CONTROL GROZNY CENTRE
Russian/Nat
Chechen rebels are now in control of the centre of Grozny after four days of fighting.
The rebels have captured Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers to attack the few buildings still held by pro-Moscow government...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN AND CHECHENS AGREE CEASEFIRE
Russian/Eng/ Nat
Russian and Chechen officials agreed to a temporary ceasefire Wednesday, despite scepticism and widespread violations of an earlier truce.
Negotiations toward a longer-lasting peace are to resume Friday.
Moscow has...