A military helicopter went down in Russia’s volatile province of Chechnya killing all 17 people on board, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported quoting a source in the military.
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April 28, 2007Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev toured war-ravaged Chechnya on Monday to hail progress in reconstruction, the highest-level visitor for 16 months.
Two wars between Russian forces and rebels since 1994 have wrecked much of the Caucasus republic’s infrastructure.
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April 17, 2007A field commander, Khairulla (Suleiman Imurzayev), has been killed in Chechnya, Russia’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
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April 4, 2007A coffin with purported remains of Georgia’s president who was overthrown in 1992 and died the following year under mysterious circumstances was unearthed Saturday in the Chechen capital, his son said, the Associated Press reported March 5.
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March 5, 2007
The funeral of the poisoned Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko was being held at Highgate Cemetery in north London today.
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December 7, 2006
An exiled Kremlin opponent accused the West on Wednesday of standing by passively as Russia passed laws allowing its agents to hunt down opponents overseas, saying these had led directly to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, Reuters reports.
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Russia should carry out its own investigation into the poisoning death in London of former intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, the deputy justice minister was quoted by a newspaper in Moscow as saying, Agence France-Presse reported.
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December 6, 2006Chechnya’s law enforcement services have arrested Compensation Payments Commission Secretary Sultan Isakov, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday referring to the statement made by Chechnya’s Prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov.
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November 16, 2006The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of three suspects in the killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, a court spokesman is quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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November 9, 2006Field commander Rizvan Chitigov has been killed in Chechnya during a raid carried out by pro-Moscow security forces and the republic’s Interior Ministry troops, the Itar-Tass news agency cited the republic’s first deputy prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov.
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March 23, 2005
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