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...along as human shields to insure the rebels' safety as the Chechens departed in a bus convoy. The gunmen agreed to release the hostages after Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomydrin, in a series of dramatic televised telephone negotiations with rebel leader Shamil Basayev, agreed todeclare a ceasefire in Chechnya, resume peace talks and give the gunmen safe passage home. The normally reticent Chernomyrdin surprised many with his decisive action. The government had endured a firestorm of criticism overPresident Boris Yeltsin's decision to attend the G-7 meeting rather than stay to deal with the crisis. The just-released hostages...
...hostages. A defiant Shamil Basayev, the leader of the rebel group, defied Grachev, saying: "Let them come and storm the place." Negotiations in the three-day old crisis have hit a standstill as the 200 rebels holed up inside the building rejected an offer of safe passage to Chechnya or any country willing to accept them. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is on his way to attempt a peaceful resolution, but his chances appear slim. The gunmen have killed five hostages already, and Basayev, who had lost all 11 members of his family to the war with Russia, insists that...
...lose." At least 42 have been killed and dozens more wounded in two days of fighting. Some 200 Chechens are holding about 1,000 residents of the town hostage. Chechen General Jokhar Dudayev denies any connection to the rebels, who aredemanding that Russia halt all military operations in Chechnya. One group of gunmen, holed up in the city's hospital with 300 hostages, including pregnant women and small children, has threatened to shoot 10 captives for any Chechen killed by Russian soldiers...
...battles raged through the streets of the southern Russian cityof Budyonnovsk, 120 miles north of Chechnya, as an armed convoy of nearly 100 heavily armed gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels invaded the town. As the rebels stormed the police station, city hall and government offices, 15 people were killed and 21 others were wounded. The gunmen seized as many as 300 hostages, most of them civilians, and threatened to kill them if Russia did not immediatelycease military operations in Chechnya. As night fell, Russian officials say the attackers herded their captives into buses and began to retreat towards Chechnya...
Farkhad Kerimov, a freelance television cameraman covering the war in Chechnya for the Associated Press, has been confirmed dead near Grozny. Shot to death a week ago by unidentified assailants, 27 miles south of the Chechen capital, Kerimov was quickly buried by local residents. His remains were identified today by his brother. Kerimov, a native of Azerbaijan, had covered the Chechen conflict for AP since last December...