Word: chechenization
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...security, while a second assassination plot was to have been attempted during Clinton's canceled Pakistan visit. If the reports are true, Washington would do well to beef up security for next week's Moscow trip -- after all, Bin Laden is also alleged to have trained a number of Chechen terrorists...
Across the courtyard, astonished neighbors began appearing on their balconies. One of them, an expatriate Chechen, started hurling insults at the fire fighters for disturbing his sleep and fell silent only when a panicky police marksman brought him down with a misplaced warning shot. Later that evening the Chechen delegation walked out of the Russia-Chechnya peace conference in protest, an event the Tsibliyevs might have seen on the news had their television survived the deluge in their living room. But none of this mattered to Larissa Tsibliyev. As she slipped into unconsciousness, she was content simply to note that...
GROZNY, Russia: New Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov took the oath of office in a ceremony designed to help build up a sense of national identity in the shattered region. Because the Moscow government was determined to portray the inauguration in the secessionist republic as an internal Russian affair, few foreign leaders were present at the event. Now comes the hard part for Maskhadov, who built his fame as a tough-minded and decisive military leader in masterminding several key victories in Chechnya's bloody struggle with Russia. He is faced with a large-scale reconstruction of Chechnya. The war left...
...Russian soldiers, young Vania, played by Bodrov's son Sergei Jr., and experienced Sasha (Oleg Menshikov) are ambushed and taken prisoner by a Chechen father. They are to be used as negotiating tools to facilitate the freedom of his son, who is being held in a Russian prison, despite the town leaders' repeated warnings that the Russians will bring nothing but trouble to every...
While sitting across a cafe table with her son's captor, desperate father and desperate mother, Chechen and Russian, she appeals to Vania's captor, a man who, like her, knows the pain of losing a child to war. Yet even he is not moved. "We are enemies," he says. Negotiation and compromise are out of the question...