Word: breakaway
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What is happening now in the breakaway republic of Chechnya [WORLD, Dec. 6] is similar to what happened in Waco, Texas, in 1993. In both cases a group of extremists was trying to undermine the authority of the established government. How can anyone condone the fbi's moves at Waco and at the same time condemn the actions of Russia in Chechnya? JOHN ZACHARIAS Scunthorpe, England
Sophomore center Jared Cantanucci gave the Crimson yet another chance early in the third period to take the lead. Cantanucci had a breakaway at 3:23 and almost poked the puck across the goal line, but Boucher made the save...
Once again the mountains of the Caucasus are the backdrop to scenes of violence, cruelty and suffering. The Russian government last week warned all civilians in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, that they must leave the city in a days or be killed when the city is destroyed in an apocalyptic artillery barrage and bombing. This is a particularly cavalier escalation of a war which has already been very punishing for Chechen civilians...
...destruction of guerrillas in their mountain bases. On Thursday Grozny was hammered with the heaviest rocket and artillery fire of the current war. Thousands of rockets and shells rained down on the city, according to the Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor...
...main event, much delayed, finally happens. Accompanied by multiple levels of security, Anatoli Chubais, former Deputy Prime Minister and Kremlin chief of staff and now head of the energy monopoly RAOEES, drives up to the administrative building. With him are the Russian government's point man for the breakaway republic, Nikolai Koshman, and the mufti of Chechnya, who has recently withdrawn his support from the government of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov...