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RUSSIA Parade Bomb More than 40 people, including at least 12 children and a number of World War II veterans, died in the Dagestani city of Kaspiisk, in southern Russia, when a remote-controlled mine was detonated during a parade to mark victory over Nazi Germany. President Vladimir Putin swore vengeance on those who carried out the attack and sent the head of the Federal Security Service to investigate. The authorities blamed rebels from neighboring Chechnya, where remote-controlled mines are common. Dagestan, however, also has Islamic militants...
...officials say, blame the U.S. military advisers who will soon start training the Georgian army. An advance unit of U.S. Green Berets arrived in Georgia last week. The Georgians will mount a "full-scale attempt to solve the Abkhaz problem by force before the onset of autumn," says General Vladimir Arshba, Abkhazia's chief of general staff. They are engaged in "semi-covert mobilization" and menacing exercises, he says, and by the summer the first batch of Georgian troops should have finished U.S. training. If there is an attack, Arshba adds, "I do not exclude the participation of U.S. advisers...
...clearly much better funded than previous Springfests. It got the cash flow it needed,” Vladimir A. Kleyman ’02 said...
...ambush in central Grozny. On the previous day six Russian soldiers died and 11 were injured in a mine attack, reportedly in retaliation for Russian mortar strikes on the southern village of Gorgachi, which killed two children and a pregnant woman. Two hours after the Grozny explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his State of the Union address that the "military stage" of the conflict in the rebel republic was over...
...only in Israel and the West Bank that bodies lie in the rubbled streets. At the current rate of killing, an additional 30 or so Russian soldiers will have died in Chechnya by the time George W. Bush meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow at the end of May. Don't ask how many civilian Chechens die in the fighting each week. Nobody knows, though the number surely mounts as Moscow's long campaign to bludgeon Chechnya into submission proceeds unchecked...