Word: chechen
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...SENTENCED. Nurpashi Kulayev, 25, Chechen separatist, to life in prison; for his part in the Beslan school siege that left more than 330 people dead, many of them children; in Vladikavkaz, Russia. The only survivor out of 32 terrorists who seized the southern Russian school in Sept. 2004, Kulayev was found guilty of terrorism, murder and hostage taking. He admitted his involvement in the siege, but denied killing anyone...
ACQUITTED. Kazbek Dukuzov, 32, and Musa Vakhayev, 42, of carrying out the contract killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov; in Moscow. Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes' Russian edition, was shot dead as he left his Moscow office in July 2004. The prosecution had alleged that the two Chechens killed the editor on orders from Chechen separatist Kozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the subject of Klebnikov's book Conversations with a Barbarian...
...APPOINTED. RAMZAN KADYROV, 29, son of assassinated former Chechen president Akhmad, as the troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...
...terrorist? If you're Russian President Vladimir Putin, the definition might just depend on how close or far the "terror" is from Moscow. A court in the Nizhniy Novgorod regional center last week gave a suspended two year sentence to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, Chair of the local Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, and editor of Rights Defense bulletin. Dmitriyevsky was found guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred, simply because in March 2004, he published an appeal by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - later killed by Russian security services - and Maskhadov's envoy in Europe, Akhmet Zakayev...
...ground showed the guerrillas were mostly in their early twenties, well-armed and generously supplied with ammunition. Security officials were stunned by something else, too. According to one fsb officer, "amazingly, they were all locals," many from the city itself. Though the attackers included a sprinkling of Chechen and Ingush fighters, security officials say most were from an Islamic guerrilla group called Yarmuk that only recently surfaced. The cell first called for jihad in August 2004, and gained some local prominence with small attacks later that year. After last week's violence ended, officials variously described the attack...