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...APPOINTED. RAMZAN KADYROV, 29, son of assassinated former Chechen president Akhmad, as the troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...
...Britain recalled from Tashkent last year, says that Karimov is "indignant now that anyone should have the temerity to criticize him." The Uzbek government insists that a total of 169 people died in the confrontation - but not one civilian was killed by government forces, according to Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov. Andijan is still sealed off from the outside world, though, and hundreds of refugees have fled over the border into Kyrgyzstan. A group of diplomats and journalists was allowed to make a brief, tightly controlled visit last week, but they saw little. "There are still lots of troops...
...when Russian forces reinvaded Chechnya and overthrew his secessionist government, Maskhadov became a fugitive, constantly on the move and relying largely on couriers for his communications. Three or four bodyguards usually accompanied him, while mobile security teams - most recently, about 15 men posing as pro-Russian strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's police - stayed within radio range if needed...
...hiding in a village in the high, densely forested hills of the Nozhai Yurt district, another 40 km to the east. As so often in the past, he was living under his enemy's nose. The village was nominally under the control of pro-Russian Chechen forces; Tsentoroy, Kadyrov's home base, is only around 20 km away. Maskhadov was planning to move on toward Achkhoy Martan in western Chechnya. When his security detail failed to make contact, the guerrillas started calling down the chain of Maskhadov's liaison agents. Using some of his many nicknames - including one, Big Ears...
...where 1303 fell, heard explosions before the crash. Siberia Airlines said 1047 had put out a "hijack alarm" as it went down. To a country that has become used to terror attacks large and small, the culprits seemed obvious: the Chechens again. Elections for Chechnya's President - replacing Akhmad Kadyrov, blown up last May - were due in a few days, and had been denounced by the rebels as a farce. Chechen guerrillas had demonstrated their power by occupying parts of the republic's capital, Grozny, a few days earlier. The Kremlin did not see it that way. "There...