Word: chechnya
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...WHAT'S GOING ON IN RUSSIA TODAY? I see challenges and successes, tremendous successes. You may know the famous book written in the late 1960s by Andrei Amalrik [Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?]. His nightmare scenario was not just one small Chechnya, but civil war on a wholesale scale. But the end of the communist era was three minutes of shooting at the Moscow White House, not three years of fighting. One trouble is that they have not created a standard, well-defined political structure. They still don't have ideologically well-defined political parties. You have...
...life, warriors are judged by their prowess on the battlefield; in death, by the manner of their dying. When Russian special forces cornered Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in a basement in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, Chechnya, last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia...
...Prosecutor General's office formally charged Muslim Ibragimov, a Chechen native, with "a murder conspired and conducted by a group of people" in connection with the death of Forbes Russia journalist Paul Klebnikov who was gunned down last summer outside his Moscow office. A number of suspects - all from Chechnya - have been detained since September, but Ibragimov is the first to be indicted. Backward, March SYRIA Officials announced the planned redeployment of some of the 14,000 Syrian troops stationed in Lebanon to positions closer to the Syrian border. International pressure on Damascus to withdraw its military forces from Lebanon...
...Dimmer Glimmer CHECHNYA Rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov's declaration of a unilateral truce earlier this month brought a ray of hope in the brutal 10-year war with Russia. Maskhadov said he wanted to start peace talks with the Kremlin and involve the international community in negotiating an end to the fighting. Thus far, Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained silent, sparking fears of fresh terrorist attacks when the truce expires...
...more surprising than the fact that the rebels had penetrated law-enforcement agencies. Chechen guerrillas and their allies in the North Caucasus boast that they buy weapons from the Russian army and are assisted by local police. Meanwhile, bloody clashes, usually unreported in the media, occur daily in Chechnya. Last week, seven guerrillas were killed in a gunfight in Nalchik, capital of the once sleepy republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. A standoff in a city apartment block lasting almost two days concluded in a deadly six-hour firefight; two police were also reported injured. The rebels included four women and were...