Moscow&#39;s choice appears to win in Chechnya
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The Russian government&#39;s choice for president of Chechnya appeared to win in an election that unfolded yesterday in ghostly emptiness in
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GROZNY, Russia Aug. 29, 2004 - Chechens battered by five years of war, terrorism and misery voted Sunday for a president in an election that the Russian government portrayed as step toward stability, though
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PROKHLADNY, Russia  - Chechens elect a new  president Sunday, but few expect peace to follow from a  Kremlin-sponsored contest overshadowed by fighting and twin  plane crashes some have linked to rebels in the region.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become the new president of rebel Chechnya in a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by charges of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.    Little more than two hours after polls closed, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said preliminary results showed Maj...
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The result was no surprise, as the Kremlin backed selection was always expected to win. Alkhanov is a Kremlin replacement for Akhmad Kadyrov who was assassinated in May of this year.
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The Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has got 75.1 percent of the ballots in Sunday&#39;s presidential poll in Russia&#39;s Chechen republic after 64.
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Sunday's vote comes as Russia continues its probe into the dual jet bombings.
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A glance at Chechnya, which holds a presidential election Sunday, and its conflict. Russian authorities have expressed concern that separatist rebels could carry out attacks linked to the election to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Russian president killed by a bombing in May.
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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The date of Chechnya's elections has assumed a local significance the Kremlin would no doubt prefer to avoid: a masquerade of democracy, and a dangerous one.
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A Kremlin-backed candidate appeared victorious Sunday in Chechnya&#39;s presidential election, which was marred by a blast at a polling station and mounting evidence that the recent crashes
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president, in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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Vladimir Putinâs pick for a new premier is likely to become the top candidate for president in the upcoming election.
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A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya after a vote that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled republic but which was nonetheless punctuated by violence.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya's presidential election but now faces a struggle to  keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent  separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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The Kremlinâs favoured candidate for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, Russian news agencies reported today.