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PERVOMAYSKAYA, DAGESTAN: Russian forces unleashed waves of artillery, rockets and helicopter fire after reports that Chechen rebels had shot some of roughly 100 local hostages they have held for six days. The attacks apparently have failed to dislodge many of the rebel fighters. Fewer than 10 hostages were freed and there was no clear information on whether others were slaughtered in the crossfire. "It looks like about half the village is destroyed," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The Russian military spokesman told journalists that we should not have an impression that this artillery barrage was indiscriminate. But the Russian army...
PERVOMAYSKAYA, DAGESTAN: In a tiny Dagestani village in a Russian republic that abuts Chechnya, officials have so far failed to negotiate the release of the more than 100 hostages held as human shields by Chechen rebels seeking safe passage home after their raid on the town of Kizlar. "A convoy of 11 buses, packed with hungry, exhausted women and children, and two trucks filled up with corpses, sits in the lazily falling snow on the frozen mud road," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Some 250 Chechen rebels, their guns and bazookas at ready and their fingers itchy on triggers, have...
DAGESTAN, RUSSIA: A blown-up bridge has stopped buses carrying Chechen rebels returning home after their raid on the Russian town of Kizlyar. The rebels, who earlier freed most of the 2,000 hostages they had held overnight in Kizlyar in return for safe passage back to the Chechen republic, have threatened to start shooting the 160 remaining hostages unless the Russian Interior Ministry allows them to use another route. Although the Interfax news agency reports that Russian helicopters have fired several shots at the bus convoy, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised that no action would be taken that...
KIZLYAR, DAGESTAN: Chechen rebels are holding as many as 1,000 hostages in a Russian hospital 60 miles north of Grozny, the Chechen capital. "Some 400 rebels attacked Kizlyar in neighboring Dagestan, an ethnic republic to the northeast of the breakaway region," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev...
...Russian government announced that troops would begin patrolling railway stations as the country nears December 17 elections that boast a complicated lineup of 43 parties and 2,700 candidates. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that the government worries that Chechen rebels will try to disrupt the voting with bombings as part of their pledge to bring the Chechen war to Moscow. "The government made a very bad mistake, With Russian troops still in Chechnya, they decided to go ahead with not only national elections but also with local elections. The rebel fighters are not going to be very happy with...