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This comes as a Turkish terrorist has reportedly become the new head of the Dagestani fighters. At least five police officers were killed and six others injured in the fighting on the republics’ borders on Thursday, Interfax news agency reports. The...
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“Five policemen died in Thursday’s heated exchange,” said the source. The rebels’ kavkazcenter.com website confirmed the toll and said Russian forces — comprising federal interior ministry troops and policemen from Dagestan and Chechnya — were also...
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Workers install a pre-election billboard showing a portrait of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Putin runs to reclaim the presidency in March's election. ... View Photo »
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"I should know about where I am going." That was four months ago. Since then, the scandal has died down. But no charities have come forward to publicly acknowledge receipt of Swank's promised financial donation. And human rights groups are starting to...
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"I should know about where I am going." That was four months ago. Since then, the scandal has died down. But no charities have come forward to publicly acknowledge receipt of Swank's promised financial donation. And human rights groups are starting to...
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Life with children, thinks Rohinka Kamal, is "life in colour". Many of Capital's keenest pleasures arrive when it takes a break from Zeitgeist-hunting to relish that spectrum. However, their son Shahid briefly went to Chechnya on a quixotic mission of...
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A worker installs a pre election billboard showing a portrait of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Putin runs to reclaim the presidency in March's election. View Photo »
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Zakaev tells Swank that the “Soviet Union Russia unleashed two terrible wars on the Chechen soil” that resulted in the deaths of 250,000 people, including 40,000 children. “The Russian regime of terror continues to reign in Chechnya under Kadyrov’s...
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The enemy is using aircraft. Sources of the aggressors clarify that the Mujahideen units are headed by Emirs Ruslan Temirkayev, Arslan Mamedov, call sign "Muaz" (both natives of Dagestan), and a native of Nozhai-Yurt district of Chechnya, a 47-year-old...
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