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...MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a family of three in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya on Thursday, a police source said. At approximately 2.00 a.m. (23.00 Wednesday GMT), a group of unidentified gunmen broke...
...resuming the trial a few days later and allowing journalists in once again. Politkovskaya, who wrote in detail about the war in Chechnya and alleged Kremlin involvement in torture of civilians, was shot dead in the lobby of her Moscow apartment building...
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...ANOTHER woman has been murdered in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, bringing to seven the number of women found dead in a suspected serial killing. The latest victim, who had been shot in the head, was found outside the village of Enginoy in...
...wars against Moscow in the 1990s. The former Taliban regime in Afghanistan was the only government in the world to recognise Chechnya as an independent state, and in February 2000 the Chechen separatist government opened an embassy in Kabul. Despite...
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