Word: secessionist
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GROZNY, Russia: New Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov took the oath of office in a ceremony designed to help build up a sense of national identity in the shattered region. Because the Moscow government was determined to portray the inauguration in the secessionist republic as an internal Russian affair, few foreign leaders were present at the event. Now comes the hard part for Maskhadov, who built his fame as a tough-minded and decisive military leader in masterminding several key victories in Chechnya's bloody struggle with Russia. He is faced with a large-scale reconstruction of Chechnya. The war left...
...further details of the ongoing cease-fire, Russian national security boss Ivan Rybkin wearily condemned the attack and urged Chechen forces to thwart any further shootings. Since a tentative peace was signed in August, Russian troops have almost entirely pulled out from Chechnya, leaving the republic, which has serious secessionist ambitions, essentially to its own devices. Tuesday's shooting serves as a grim reminder that although war is over, the killing is still going...
...Yale already memorializes its alumni who fell on both sides in the Civil War, and Calhoun College is named for John C. Calhoun, the author of much secessionist political theory such as the nullification doctrine to protect minority rights...
...Gomes' portrayal of the ideals and higher norms underlying the proposal he initiated--in recent years at least--for recognition by Harvard University and our community of those sons of Harvard who died to defend the perpetuation of American slavocracy. Who died, that is, under personal fidelity to the secessionist government of the Confederacy and to its anti-democratic and anti-humanitarian values and beliefs that formed the rationale and soul of American slavocracy...
Russia recaptured Chechnya's second largest city, Gudermes, from secessionist rebels who had moved into the city to disrupt elections for a local president and for the Russian parliament. Moscow's 10-day assault on Gudermes left nearly 600 people dead, half of them civilians, according to the Russian military commander, and destroyed a third of the city's buildings...