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BELGIUM: EU COMMISSION PRESIDENT PRODI PRESS CONFERENCE
Italian/Nat
The European Commission president says the E-U will define a European position on the worsening situation in Chechnya at this week's Helsinki Summit.
Romano Prodi made the statement in Brussels when he outlined topics for the...
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Osama bin Laden urges Muslims to join him in Holy War
1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida leader:
"Enlisting to fight in the name of God for one hour is better than praying to God for sixty years. One hour in the line of battle, to uphold the name of God against the Jews, the...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: GOITY
Russian/Nat
Chechen civilians continue to suffer from Russian bombing and artillery raids - despite proposed truces by Chechen rebels.
As Russia steps up its campaign to rid Chechnya of what it calls "terrorists", civilians caught in the...
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Chechnya-War City Children Hit By Polio Epidemic
Grozny, Chechnya Natsot Duration: 2.20"
Although life in the war-scarred city of Grozny shows signs of
returning to normal, for some of the survivors of the bloody
conflict the nightmare has just begun. A polio...
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CHECHNYA: GROZNY: RUSSIAN PLANES BOMB SUPPLY ROUTE
Russian/Nat
Russian planes have bombed a main supply route to the Chechen capital Grozny, and Russian troops have moved to tighten their blockade of the city.
Russian warplanes and artillery have been relentlessly pounding the city for...
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Chechnya - Pro-Dudayev Fighters Take Control
About 100 fighters of Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev
took control of the area around Urus Martan, 20 km south of the
capital Grozny, on Sunday (8/10), and set up various check points
on the roads. Tension ran high and...
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RUSSIA: ICRC TO DISTRIBUTE AID INSIDE CHECHNYA
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Russia has, on Thursday, granted permission for the International Committee of the Red Cross (I-C-R-C) to distribute aid inside Chechnya.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Kremlin's Chechen war spokesman, said the Red Cross will...
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Man accused of being Russian agent on trial for involvement in murder of 6 Chechens
A man accused of being a Russian intelligence agent went on trial in Istanbul on Monday for his alleged involvement in the murder of six prominent Chechen separatists killed in a wave of assassinations in Turkey.
The indictment against...
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Chechnya - Civilians Protest Against Occupation
People took to the streets of Grozny, capital of breakaway
Chechnya, on Wednesday (21/6) in a growing protest against what
they described as the Russian occupation of their lands. They were
encouraged by Chechen rebel commander Shamil...
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RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN SOLDIERS BURIED
Russian/Nat
The funerals for the 14 Interior Ministry troops recently killed in Chechnya took place on Tuesday near the provincial city of Perm.
The soldiers were killed in the mountains of Chechnya on March 29, while carrying out...
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Chechnya - Refugee camp
More than a thousand refugees who've fled the continued fighting in Chechnya have ended up at a United Nations camp on the Chechen border with Ingushetia. The camp is one of the few set up for Chechen refugees. Many of the residents are...
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RUSSIA: DUMA TO SEND A DELEGATION TO YUGOSLAVIA
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's hardline parliament is to send a delegation to Yugoslavia to enforce its opposition to NATO airstrikes.
Maverick nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said the group would leave either on Tuesday or Wednesday...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT LATEST
Russian/Nat
Russia's Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo, on a visit to Chechnya, indicated Wednesday that refugees would be given more time to leave Grozny.
He said a safe corridor was being established and would remain open as long as...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN PRISONERS FACE DEATH
Eng/Russian/Nat
Russian planes and artillery continued to pound Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, on Friday.
While the offensive goes on, the fate of nineteen Russian soldiers held by Chechen authorities...
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Briefing on Chechnya by Kremlin spokesman
1. Wide shot Sergei Yastrzhembsky enters press conference
2. Cutaway journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Kremlin spokesman:
"As the result of a quick operation, 17 rebels were killed. Among them, the following people...
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Chechnya - Russians Shell Atagi / Omon In Grozny
Russian forces bombed 20 small mountain villages and attacked
suspected rebel positions in the foothills of southern Chechnya on
Monday (22/5). As a result of heavy shelling in Stary Atagi, the cement producing plant there was set on...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: STARI ATUGY: CHECHEN FIGHTERS HOSPITAL
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Some of the Chechen fighters wounded in the battle for Grozny are being treated at a hospital in the relative safety of Stari Atugy, south of the city.
Conditions are difficult, but for the time being the hospital has...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: LATEST SITUATION
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Russian forces battling for the heart of Grozny have been pushed back by Chechen fighters and now control little more of the city than they did two weeks ago.
At the same time chances of a ceasefire appeared slim despite...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: SECOND DAY OF REBEL OFFENSIVE IN GROZNY
Grozny, 6 and 7 August 1996
1. Wide shot Chechen fighters running across roads during crossfire
2. Two snipers kneeling firing volleys
3. Mid shot fighters sitting
4. Chechen gunmen draped in bullets surveying the area
5. Fighters...
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GNS Putin address to nation, comments on redeveloping nuclear weapons
1. Marble hall of the Kremlin
2. Russian President Vladimir Putin entering, shaking hands with chairmans of both chambers of the Russian Parliament
3. Cutaway audience
4. Putin walks to the rostrum
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir...
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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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Chechnya - Meeting Between Russians & Chechens
Russian and Chechen officials on Monday met in the Chechen capital
in a new bid to bring peace to the region. The meeting had been
hastily arranged to meet the demands of the Chechen rebels who had
held nearly 2,000 people hostage at a...
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Chechnya - Chechen Disarmament / Russian Prisoners
Russian and Chechen negotiators met on Saturday (19/8) near the
village of Kuchaloi to discuss further details of the disarmament
of Chechen rebels and the organisation of self-defence brigades.
Kuchaloi is the first village in Chechnya...
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RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: LEADING CANDIDATES RACE TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT
Russian/Eng/Nat
With two days before Chechnya's election on Monday, a trio of men are in the race to be the next Chechen president.
Right now it's a neck in neck race between Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev, with the incumbent...