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Chechnya
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| Feb.13 |
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Blast kills exiled Chechen leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 48, leader linked to al Qaeda terror network has been killed in a car explosion
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| May.9 |
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Bomb kills Chechen president| Akhmad Kadyrov and at least 5 others died in an explosion at a stadium in the Chechen capital | |
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 Putin 'to avenge' Chechen killing Chechen Prime Minister Abramov has taken over as the new leader of the republic
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| May.10 |
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President of Chechnya buried Akhmad Kadyrov has been buried in a traditional ceremony in his home villag
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| Jun.21 |
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Troops repel Chechen offensive After several hours of heavy fighting, interior ministry troops were able to repel rebel attempts to seize government buildings
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| Jun.22 |
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Russians hunt southern attackers Russian forces are pursuing rebels who killed 47 people in the southern republic of Ingushetia
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| Jul.13 |
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Chechen acting president survives blast An explosion hit the motorcade of Sergei Abramov, killing one person and wounding three others
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| Aug.29 |
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Kremlin's Man Wins Vote Alu Alkhanov, 47, won Chechnya presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue a rebellion
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| Sep.1 |
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7 dead in school attack Armed attackers stormed a school in southern Russia and took at least 150 children, parents and teachers hostage
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Standoff school siege| A tense standoff between authorities and attackers who seized at least 100 hostages, possibly as many as 400 | |
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'Breakdown' in siege negotiations The negotiations broke down after militants turned off their telephones
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 School siege: '26 freed' Armed militants were holding more than 300 hostages for a second day
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Blasts heard at school 2 loud explosions have jolted the area where hostage-takers have been holding 350 children, parents and teachers
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Siege goes into third day Hundreds of people, among them children, have spent a 2nd night as hostages of an armed gang
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'100 bodies' in siege school Troops stormed the building in a bid to end a terrifying hostage crisis. Special forces were mopping up pockets of resistance
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 350 dead after troops storm school   Map of Beslan North Ossetia Russia 1,200 hostages might have been inside the Beslan school. Hundreds of people were injured
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 Putin: Siege force not planned| Russian President arrived in an unexpected visit to the siege town and shut crisis region borders | |
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Siege toll tops 350 In a nationally televised speech, President Putin denounced the massacre as 'an attack on our country'
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Hostage families return to school Families of people held for 3 days wept as they surveyed the ruins
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Hostage town mourns siege victims Mourners were holding the first funerals for hostages killed in school siege as a top local official reportedly resigned
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| Sep.6 |
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Suspect: We wanted to start a war The man said the attack was ordered by Chechen rebel leader Maskhadov and Chechen warlord Basayev
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| Sep.8 |
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$10m reward for Chechen rebels A military official said Moscow was prepared to strike at terrorists around the world
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| Sep.16 |
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Rebel Basayev claims Beslan siege| Chechen warlord has claimed responsibility for the school siege, in which at least 320 hostages, many of them children, died | |
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