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Chechnya - Russian troops pull out of Grozny
Russian soldiers and rebel Chechen fighters started withdrawing from the
Chechen capital Grozny on Wednesday (28/8) under a ceasefire agreement.
About 2,000 Russian soldiers were due to leave the city on Wednesday.
Column of tanks with...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT UPDATE (2)
Russian/Nat
The ceasefire in the Chechen capital, Grozny, appears to be holding despite widespread scepticism that it won't last..
Chechen separatists have been dancing in the streets, jubilant that the fighting is over, at least for...
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Chechnya - Shelling Continues
The Chechen village of Bamut, held by rebels, was attacked by
Russian helicopter gunships on Friday (5/5) in the fifth major
assault on what has become the Chechen centre of resistance. The
village had been pounded by artillery through...
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INGUSHETIA/CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN MILITARY CLOSE BORDER
Russian/Nat
The Russian military authorities temporarily closed the cross border traffic at the Adler -20 checkpoint between Chechnya and Ingushetia on Friday.
The border serves as the main gateway for refugees coming in and out of...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CHERNOMYRDIN VISIT TO INDIA
Eng/Russian/Natsot
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has blamed Islamic mercenaries for the war in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
Speaking on a three-day visit to India, Chernomyrdin said the fighters were from Pakistan,...
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RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: CHECHEN WARLORD REPORTEDLY SEIZED (2)
Russian/Nat
Russia says Chechen warlord Salman Raduyev - along with several of his senior lieutenants - has been captured during a "special operation" in the village of Novogroznenskoy, where he had been hiding.
Sunday's arrest of...
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Chechnya - Shelling
Defiant Grozny rebels shelled; they hit back at Samashki
Chechen rebels, who have refused to abandon their capital, Grozny,
came under further intense Russian shelling on Tuesday (31/1).
Government officials in Moscow said the increased...
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RUSSIA: PRESIDENT YELTSIN ELECTION CAMPAIGN UPDATE
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Russia is ready for "a historic compromise" to end the war in Chechnya, according to President Boris Yeltsin.
Speaking during a trip to the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, Yeltsin said he was willing to grant maximum...
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Chechnya-Ceasefire/Rebel Leader Maskhadov
Russian soldiers serving in Chechnya and the local residents of
Grozny have been able to relax a little because of the cease-fire
that took effect on Saturday (1/6).
But a standoff between Russian troops and rebels at the town of
Shali...
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CHECHNYA: ARGUN GORGE BLOCKADE
Russian/Nat
The Russian Military has claimed to have nearly completed a blockade of the Argun Gorge in Southern Chechnya where thousands of Chechen rebels are believed to be hiding.
About 20-thousand Russian troops are said to be...
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Chechnya - Fighting continues despite ceasefire
Serious fighting continues on the front line in the centre of the Chechen capital Grozny despite a ceasefire announced last week.
Aerial of Grozny;
Two Russian soldiers launching mortars;
Soldiers running towards building;
Soldiers...
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Protest against war in Chechnya, on siege anniversary
1. Wide shot of demonstration and stage
2. Placard, pan to man holding fist in air
3. Rally organiser Yevgeniya Albats talking into microphone, pan to crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Yevgeniya Albats, rally organiser:
''Putin's policies in...
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Putin analyst comments on leader's reaction
1. Andrew Jack, Moscow bureau chief of the British newspaper The Financial Times, sitting at a desk reading newspapers
2. Newspaper
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Jack, Moscow Bureau Chief of The Financial Times:
"I think at the moment...
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Chechnya - Heavy Fighting Rages In Grozny
In a fiery battle for control of Chechnya's capital, Russian
soldiers attacked rebel positions with artillery, tank and rocket
fire on Sunday (1/1).Burned-out Russian tanks littered the square outside Chechnya's presidential...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BORIS YELTSIN ENDS LOW PROFILE
English/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a series of appearances on Friday after weeks of maintaining low profile during the Chechnya crisis.
He looked cheerful as he faced the media in Moscow, but many Russians doubt that he...
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CHECHNYA: SECURITY TIGHTENED AFTER MASHADOV THREATS
Russian/Nat
Security in Russian-held areas of Chechnya has been tightened following threats, made on Friday by rebel president Aslan Maskhadov, to launch a partisan war.
Official sources in Moscow ridiculed Maskhadov's threats as...
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CHECHNYA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PREVIEW
Russian/Eng/Nat
With only days to go before the people of Chechnya go to the polls to choose their own president, the political race is hotting up.
There are 16 contenders for the post, but only five stand any real chance of becoming ...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: REBELS
Russian/Nat
Chechen rebels continue to hold out in the mountains of southern Chechnya, while Russian troops control the plains in the north.
Harsh winter conditions are hampering efforts by Russian forces to rid the mountainous regions...
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Chechnya - Rebels capture prisoners of war
Chechen rebels entrenched in the centre of Grozny have been showing off Russian troops captured during the battle for the city over the past week.
0.00 Chechen fighter on city corner (gunfire audible)
0.04 Group of fighters during...
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US: SENATOR DOLE CRITICAL OF RUSSIAN INTERVENTION IN CHECHNYA
English/Nat
U-S Congressional leaders are alarmed at the show of force by Russian troops in the Chechnya capital city of Grozny.
With the latest crisis in Russia - incoming Senate leader Bob Dole says the new Republican-controlled...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: SECOND ROUND OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BEGINS
Russian/Nat
The second round of voting for Russia's president has started in Chechnya, a day before most of the rest of the country goes to the polls.
But voting was marred by an explosion in the centre of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
An...
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Chechnya - Russians Shell Pervomaiskoye
Russian forces Wednesday repeatedly shelled the village of
Pervomaiskaya, 15 kilometres northwest of Grozny, Wednesday
(14/12), killing at least two people and wounding eight, witnesses
said. Women and children took refuge in cellars and...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN INFANTRY REINFORCEMENTS
Russian/Nat
Russia ordered massive infantry reinforcements with tanks and artillery to the warfront in Chechnya on Monday, in what looks like the buildup to a full scale occupation of the province.
The new troop deployments follow air...
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Nationalist demo held in Moscow
1. Wide of Russian nationalist march in Moscow
2. Mid of religious effigy and flags
3. Close-up of man in white balaclava, crowd chanting "one for all and all for one"
4. Russian Nationalist leader Alexander Belov walking in front of...