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Work to rebuild Russia's Chechnya region, devastated by separatist wars from the 1990s, is now virtually complete, the region's leader said at the lavish opening of a new shopping center in the capital.
Work to rebuild Russia's Chechnya region, devastated by separatist wars from the 1990s, is now virtually complete, the region's leader said at the lavish opening of a new shopping center in the capital.
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Terrorists from Uzbekistan, Chechnya and Arab nations are involved in the insurgency in Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told tribesmen in the northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
(RTTNews) - A chartered Boeing 757 with 200 Muslim pilgrims took off from Chechnya's Grozny airport to Saudi Arabia on Monday morning, making it the first international flight to leave the troubled Russian republic in fifteen years.
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Chechnya began its first international flights in 15 years, sending off a plane filled with Muslims on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
Government forces have killed more than 20 militants in Chechnya, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in a neighboring province killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement authorities said.
GROZNY, Russia, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Ten militants were killed in a police operation in the Shalazhi forest of the Russian republic of Chechnya, a Chechen Interior Ministry source says.
Government forces have killed more than 20 militants in Chechnya, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in a neighboring province killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement...
RUSSIA Government forces killed more than 20 rebels in Chechnya on Friday, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in the neighboring province of Dagestan killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement authorities said.
Chechen security forces killed up to 20 Islamist rebels in a helicopter attack near the capital Grozny, the region's leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday.
Moscow- Russian special forces killed at least 20 suspected Islamist resistance fighters Friday in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax agency reported. A rebel position in the mountains was fired on by Russian attack helicopters, Chechny...
Moscow - Russian special forces killed at least 10 alleged Islamist resistance fighters Friday in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, Russian authorities told the Interfax agency Friday. The special forces fired missiles at the rebels' position from ...
(RTTNews) - Chechnya's interior ministry says Russian security forces shot dead five rebels in a special operation near the the Caucasus republic's capital Grozny Wednesday, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
Moscow, Nov 11 (AFP) Russian security forces killed five rebels in a special operation near the Chechen capital Grozny today, the Caucasus republic's interior ministry said, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.
In the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered the return of Sufi Islam and Chechen traditions as a way to establish control and undercut Muslim extremists. Some in the Kremlin are now beginning to ask what they have unleashed in the unstable region.
