Word: chechenization
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...Russian President rode to power in 1999 on the promise that he alone could bring peace to Chechnya. To that end, he compelled Chechens to vote on a political solution to the conflict last March, an exercise widely dismissed as a sham because it was conducted by force. Putin did pull a token number of troops out of Chechnya and promised that he would put an end to the routine abductions and executions of Chechen civilians. Yet more than 200 people have been abducted since the vote took place. "We know for a fact that the reprisals have grown much...
...Putin's approval rating, which has declined from 75% to 48% over the past three months. An increasingly violent Chechnya won't help his political fortunes. "Putin has manacled himself to a hell-bound train and can't get off," says Salambek Maigov, the official representative of rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. "He has made himself a hostage to the situation." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...RUSSIA Faced with the threat of a Russian veto in the Security Council, the State Department designated three Chechen rebel groups as "terrorist organizations," a step Moscow had been urging. But what Russia really needs is a guarantee of oil contracts in a post-Saddam Iraq and a repayment of $8 billion that Iraq owes Russia...
...crucial figure, contending that police and intelligence information from recently arrested European terror suspects proves that Zarqawi commanded al-Qaeda terror camps in and around Chechnya from a base in Iraq. But French investigators tell TIME that while they have questioned several suspects who acknowledged being trained in those Chechen camps and who identified al-Qaeda officials they say ran the camps, not a single one mentioned or knew of Zarqawi. "When we heard Powell citing our Chechen-network suspects as the terror link directly to Zarqawi, everyone's mouth dropped open," says a French investigator--who calls Powell...
...MOSCOW Underground Alert Last week the Russian government received a warning from Interpol that Chechen terrorists planned a chemical attack in the Moscow subway. The special mobile rescue force of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry (MCHS) went on red alert. No public warning was issued and no attack took place, but the MCHS rushed staff to Moscow just in case. The incident reminded Russian security agencies that the threat of further Chechen attacks is real, and exposed worrying gaps in Moscow's readiness to respond. A MCHS source tells TIME rescue workers began training for a chemical attack last December...