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Chechnya - Election results
Preliminary results in the Chechen elections indicate an overwhelming victory for the favourite, Aslan Maskhadov.
The news will be a relief to the Russians who had feared the implications of a victory by Maskhadov's main rival, the...
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Chechnya - Russian Troops Battle Chechen Forces
Russian troops, backed by helicopter gunships and planes, battled
Chechen forces Monday, as the two sides opened last-ditch talks to
avert a full-scale assault on the breakaway republic's capital
Grozny. Thousands of Russian troops and...
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Chechnya - Bomb Attacks Continue
Fierce air attacks continued in the Chechen capital Grozny on
Friday (23/12), amid growing criticism in Russia and abroad over
mounting civilian deaths. The bombings have driven thousands of
residents out of the city and most...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: GROZNY: CITIZENS EMERGE FROM HIDING
English/Nat
Hundreds of civilians are beginning to emerge from hiding as Russia consolidates its hold on the Chechen capital Grozny.
Red Cross officials in the devastated city say they are surprised by the number of people who stayed...
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Chechnya - Grozny's Warfare Lull
On Sunday (22/1)Grozny echoed only to the sound of sporadic machinegun-fire. Chechen fighters, many dressed in winter camouflage white, moved purposefully across snow-covered streets. Residents cower in cellars and scuttle across...
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Editor of paper of murdered journalist comments after meeting Rice
1. Wide exterior of newspaper Novaya Gazeta building
2. Woman walking inside the Novaya Gazeta
3. Various of deputy editor-in-chief Vitaly Yaroshevsky and reporters inside Novaya Gazeta office ++CLIENT NOTE PICTURE QUALITY AS...
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MOLDOVA: MAVERICK RUSSIAN GENERAL LEBED RESIGNS
Russian/Nat
The maverick Russian general, Alexander Lebed, has resigned from the army after the government planned to reduce its forces in the breakaway Transdniester region of Moldova.
Lebed could now enter politics - his popularity far...
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Chechnya - Basajev Claims Russians Procrastinating
One of the leaders of the Chechen rebels, Shamil Basayev on
Tuesday (25/7) accused the Russian government of procrastinating
over the future of Chechnya while trying to present a conciliatory
front to the world. In an exclusive interview...
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RUSSIA: WWII WAR DEAD
Russian/Nat
Fifty nine years after Nazi troops attacked the Soviet Union on June 22 1941, thousands of Russians are still fighting a battle to find the remains of those who went missing-in-action (M-I-A) in World War II.
Now an...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: PACE REVIEWS CHECHNYA CONFLICT
English/Nat
A delegation from the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has arrived in Moscow.
The Council of Europe asked Russia in January to stop attacks on civilians in its offensive against Chechen rebels.
And the...
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NORWAY: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN MEETS PRIME MINISTER BRUNDTLAND
Russian/Nat
Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, says he hopes to resolve his differences with the U-S over NATO expansion.
He held out the olive branch at the end of his trip to Norway, where he had talks with the Prime Minster Gro...
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Chechnya-Pro-Dudayev Chechen 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). They set up various check points
on the roads. Tension ran high and it...
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Chechnya - Fighting continues
Russian and Chechen negotiators meeting at Novy Atagi, southof Grozny failed on Sunday (18/8) to formalise the fragile ceasefire between federal forces and Chechen separatists holdinglarge areas of the capital. Refugees, meanwhile, were...
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Russia Chechnya - Building on fire after gun battle, at least three police officers killed / Aftermath of attack by militants that killed 20 people in the Chechen capital
Building on fire after gun battle, at least three police officers killed
Grozny - 4 Dec 2014
1. Various of multi-storey building on fire
Aftermath of attack by militants that killed 20 people in the Chechen capital
Grozny - 5 Dec...
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CHECHNYA: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA CONFLICT: ATTACK
Russian/Nat
Russian bombers have continued to attack the outskirts of the Chechen capital, Grozny, as international condemnation over Russia's actions grows.
The Russian hardware has met little effective resistance from Chechen fighters....
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Chechnya - Voting Gets Underway
Voting for the second round of Russian presidential elections
started on Tuesday (2/7) in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
Security fears prompted the head of the Moscow-backed Chechen
government, Doku Zavgayev, to begin voting early...
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GEORGIA: MISSING RED CROSS WORKERS UPDATE
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Georgian authorities are continuing the search for three missing Red Cross workers.
President Eduard Shevardnadze on Monday said he hoped the volunteers - who went missing near the border with Chechnya - would soon be...
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: CHECHENS SHELTER FROM BOMBING
Pervomaiskoye
1. Damaged buildings.
2. Refugees in bunker.
3. SOUNDBITE: Woman refugee.
4. Russian armoured position near Grozny.
5. Tank.
6. Helicopter gunship fires air to surface missiles.
7. Smoke bellows from area hit by...
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Russians - Chechens Rally In Fight For Argun
Chechens rally in fight for Argun; Russian morgue at
Grozny Airport; Russian mothers descend on Nazran
Russian forces on Tuesday (21/2) used tanks, artillery and warplanes to resume attacks on rebel fighters still clinging to positions...
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CHECHNYA: REVIEW OF BATTLE FOR GROZNY
XFA Grozny, Chechnya - 8 February 20001. Wide of Minutka square (main intersection near the centre of Grozny) as APC drives past ruins2. Ruined house3. Wide of APC drives past 4. Close up of soldier looking out of a hatch of APC5....
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RUSSIA: CHECHNYA: LUXURY CARS ARE BEING DRIVEN AGAIN
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As fragile peace negotiations continue in Chechnya, further signs of peace are emerging on the streets of the breakaway Russian republic.
Owners of luxury foreign cars that have been kept hidden during the bitter fighting...
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INGUSHETIA: CHECHEN REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE
Russian/Nat
Thousands of new refugees from the breakaway republic of Chechnya flooded over the border with neighbouring Ingushetia, as Russia stepped up its artillery assaults on the capital Grozny.
Around 500 people are believed to have...
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RUSSIA: COMMUNIST CHIEF ZYUGANOV TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
Russian/Nat
Russia's Communist Party boss Gennady Zyuganov has received the official go-ahead from Russian election officials to run for the presidency.
Zyuganov is the first contender to register with the Central Election Committee....
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Russia/Chechnya - Bitter fighting continues
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to give National Security Council chief Alexander Lebed full powers to settle the Chechen conflict in an apparent endorsement of his breakthrough talks with the rebels' leader, Lebed told a Moscow news...