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RUSSIA: EU COMMISSIONER JAVIER SOLANA MEETING
English/Nat
Ahead of high level talks in Moscow, the European Union's top security official has appealed to Russia to allow a full international investigation into the war in Chechnya.
Javier Solana, the E-U's High Commissioner for...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CHECHEN CONFLICT SHOWS LITTLE SIGN OF ABATING
Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is scheduled to meet his Security Council secretary Wednesday to discuss the progress of his peace plan for Chechnya and his upcoming visit to the region.
Yeltsin has repeatedly stated that...
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CHECHNYA: KOMSOMOLSKOYE: RUSSIAN BOMBARDMENT
Russian/Nat
Russian artillery and warplanes have been bombarding the Chechen village of Komsomolskoye.
The intense assault on Wednesday was aimed at driving out rebels, who took the village in a wave of attacks that inflicted heavy...
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USA: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE (2)
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U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says Russian leaders now understand that the war they're waging in Chechnya is not the way to tackle the problems in the breakaway republic.
She says the U-S and its European allies...
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BOSNIA: MOSTAR CITY DIVIDED BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND CROATS
Bosnian/Serbo-Croat/Nat
The city of Mostar in Bosnia should have been a hopeful symbol of the new Muslim-Croat Federation.
Instead, it remains divided between Muslims on one side and Croats on the other.
With the EU administrator for...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: US PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AT STATE BANQUET UPDATE
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin and President Bill Clinton wrapped up their summit Wednesday evening with a formal state banquet.
While both leaders appeared pleased, the two-day summit produced little to smile...
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Russian interior troops in counter-terrorism exercises
1. Wide, zoom in of military parade
2. Mid of officer with a camera filming the parade
3. Troops marching, portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the background
4. Wide of helicopter flying over a church
5. Wide of soldier of...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN ARMY DEMORALIZED BY LATEST REBEL ATTACK
Russian/Nat
Although the Russian military has now regained control of Grozny after several days of fierce fighting, the Russian army has been left deeply demoralized by the latest rebel attacks.
The streets of the capital were quite...
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GEORGIA: MISSING WORKERS BEING HELD IN CAPTIVITY
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Three Red Cross workers missing in Georgia are reported to be alive and well.
The workers, who have been missing since last Thursday, are still being held in captivity in Pakinssky Gorge in Georgia.
Georgian authorities...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RENEWED FIGHTING AROUND TOWN OF GUDERMES
Russian/Nat
There's been renewed fighting in the breakaway republic of Chechnya
as separatists refuse to acknowledge the results of Russian-imposed elections.
The Kremlin-backed candidate, Doku Zavgayev, won an overwhelming majority...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: MOUNTING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
Russian/Nat
Civilian casualties are mounting as the relentless blitz of Grozny shows no sign of abating.
Several people were killed Sunday when Russian planes bombed villages on the outskirts of Grozny.
This woman was killed in a...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: ATTACKS
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The senior surgeon at the main hospital in Grozny, Chechnya, has appealed for assistance.
His appeal follows Thursday's air raid on Grozny, in which two people were killed and a number of people were injured.
The hospital is...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCED
Russian/Nat
Russian and Chechen negotiators moved toward a ceasefire in breakaway Chechnya today (Tuesday).
The announcement of the ceasefire, which takes effect Wednesday evening in Russia, came after two envoys from the Chechen...
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Chechnya - Refugees return to homes
Thousands of refugees from war-torn Grozny were returning to their homes on Saturday (24/8) as the ceasefire in Chechnya appeared to be holding. The refugees fled the capital over the past two weeks when fighting between Chechen rebels...
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RUSSIA: REPORTS OF RUSSIAN RAIDS ON CHECHNYA CONTINUE
Russian/Nat
Russia's airforce commander is denying that his warplanes bombed villages in Chechnya last week. He blamed the damage on rebels exploding landmines.
Reports of Russian air raids continue in spite of President Boris Yeltsin's...
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Russia - FNR Demo Against Chechnya War
More than a thousand people gathered in downtowm Moscow Sunday
(5/2) to protest against the "inhuman war" in Chechnya. The
demonstration was held by the Front of National Resistance (FNR),
set up especially for antiwar propaganda. The...
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Aftermath of deadly gunbattles in Grozny, political analysis
Security forces in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya stormed two buildings, including a school, in fierce gun battles with militants on Thursday that left at least 19 dead, authorities said.
The fighting, which...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT LATEST
Russian/Nat
Fighting between Russian forces and Chechen rebels continued on Tuesday.
Rebels who seized the village of Komsomolskoye in the south of Chechnya last week are still holding out against the Russian troops.
The village has...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN FORCES PUSH INTO GROZNY
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Russian military forces are trying to push their way into Grozny, the ravaged capital of Chechnya, and push back the rebel offensive in the third day of renewed fighting.
Planes and helicopters carried out air strikes...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: OSCE DELEGATION VISIT
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The head of the delegation from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Kim Traavik met with Ingusheti President Ruslan Aushev in Moscow on Thursday evening after a tour of refugee camps in Ingushetia. ...
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Chechnya - Summit of northern Caucasian leaders
Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov on Saturday (4/4) hosted an informal summit of northern Caucasian leaders in Grozny, the Chechen capital. Opening the meeting, Mashkadov said the summit should set the
scene for regular meetings of the...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN PRISONERS FACE DEATH
Russian/Nat
Nineteen Russian soldiers are facing death if the Russian bombardment of Grozny continues.
The Chechen president has threatened to hang one soldier for every Russian air raid.
This compound is next to Grozny's Presidential...
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Chechnya - ICRC workers killed
Six Red Cross workers were killed overnight Monday (16-17/12) in Novy Atagi, Chechnya, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the capital Grozny.
Those killed were part of the medical team at an ICRC hospital that opened in September in Novy...
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GERMANY: BERLIN: GERMAN AND FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET
French/Ger/Nat
The foreign ministers of Germany and France, Klaus Kinkel and Herve de Charette, met for talks in Berlin on Monday.
On the agenda was the future relationship between Europe and Russia as well as issues of security in...