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...equipment and instruct Iraqis on how to use it. Both the Russian government and the company alleged to have supplied the equipment denied any sale had taken place. Arms sales are a crucial source of tax revenue, bringing the Russian government $3 billion each year. Vote Early and Often CHECHNYA Ninety-six percent of voters approved a new constitution that binds the rebellious republic to the Russian Federation - at least according to official results. Many international groups, including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, refused to send poll monitors because of ongoing hostilities and 80,000 Russian troops...
...that they are any less brutal. They include members of Algerian terror groups whose favored modus operandi in the civil strife of the 1990s was to slit the throat of every person in a village. Nor are they necessarily less tested in combat: some have fought in Bosnia and Chechnya. But the absence of a common, annealing experience in Afghanistan may mean that the younger men lack the long-term commitment to the struggle and networks of trust their elders possessed in abundance...
...link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. During his Feb. 5 presentation to the United Nations, Powell fingered Abu Mousab Zarqawi as the 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...
...attracted a large audience. But all that changed when Putin became President in March 2000. Although Putin had run a media-savvy campaign, NTV enraged the new regime by its support of his opponents. After the election, NTV kept up its harsh criticism of Putin's new war in Chechnya. It also lampooned him wickedly in Kukly (The Puppets), its popular satirical show. Kukly presented a touchy Putin as a crazed shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches...
After another brutal year in Chechnya, where hundreds of thousands of civilians and over 10,000 Russian soldiers have died in eight years of bloody conflict, six Chechens have won a potentially significant victory over the Russian armed forces. Their triumph came not on the streets of Chechnya's devastated capital, Grozny, nor in traumatized villages like Shaami-Yurt or Katyr-Yurt, but some 3,000 km away, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. For the first time, the court agreed to hear lawsuits brought by ordinary Chechens against the Russian military under the European Convention...