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Big Dinosaur Egg Cache Found By Construction Crew, Scientists Claim

Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012

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GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Geologists in Russia's volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by on...

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DEADLY CLASHES: Police And Islamist Insurgents Battle In Russia

Reuters | Posted 04.19.2012

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MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Seventeen police and at least seven insurgents were killed in four days of fighting on the border between the Chechnya an...

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How Did Putin's Party Win 99 Percent In Chechnya?

Reuters | Posted 02.20.2012

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By Thomas Grove GROZNY, Russia, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Dagmein Khaseinova beams with pride recalling the day her Chechen villa...

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Hilary Swank Will Donate Chechen Cash

Entertainment Weekly | Posted 12.14.2011

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Talk about backtracking: after the Human Rights Watch publicly criticized Hilary Swank for appearing at the birthday party for notorious Chechen presi...

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Hillary Swank Regrets Attending Chechen Concert

AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 12.13.2011

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MOSCOW -- Hollywood celebrity Hilary Swank said she "deeply regrets" visiting a concert held on the birthday of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader, who...

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Hilary Swank Causes International Controversy, Regrets Move

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 12.13.2011

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MOSCOW — Hollywood celebrity Hilary Swank said she "deeply regrets" visiting a concert held on the birthday of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader...

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Celebrities Slammed For Attending Chechen Concert

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 12.12.2011

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MOSCOW — An international human rights watchdog lambasted an Oscar-winning actress and other Western celebrities on Wednesday for attending a co...

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Uh-Oh...

The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 12.10.2011

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he didn't want a fuss for his 35th birthday party but that didn't stop his friends from throwing a multimillion-dol...

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Car Bomb In Southern Russia Kills Eight

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

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MOSCOW -- Investigators say a powerful car bomb killed eight people, including an 11-year-old girl and a police officer, in Russia's volatile Dagestan...

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Car Bomb Rocks Russian Republic

AP | Posted 11.22.2011

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MAKHACHKALA, Russia — Two car bombs killed a Russian policeman and wounded 60 other people in the capital of the violence-plagued republic of Da...

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Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 7 Policemen In Chechnya

AP | Posted 10.31.2011

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MOSCOW -- Russia's top investigative body says eight people including seven policeman have died after suicide bombings in the capital of Chechnya. A ...

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'Un-Islamic' Red Bull Banned

Posted 09.18.2011

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The Chechen government has banned the sale of Red Bull and other similar energy drinks throughout the Russian Federation republic, reports The Guardia...

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The S Word: South Sudan and Secession

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Secession, Vladimir Putin, Somalia, Puntland, Sri Lanka, Chechnya, South Sudan, World News

A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. With so many post-Cold War precedents, you'd think secession wouldn't be dirty word today.

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Chechnya Says Couples Must Be HIV-Negative To Marry

Reuters | Ã¢â‚¬â€œ | Posted 05.25.2011

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GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) -- The spiritual leaders of Muslim Chechnya have ordered that all couples who plan to marry prove they are HIV-negative, spar...

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The Big Chechen Horse Trade: Murder in Dubai Made Easy

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

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In February, I remember being impressed with how Dubai police handled the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas commander who got whacked by Mossad....

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Moscow's Shadow War - Playing Now in Poland

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 200,000 Chechens have died on Moscow's orders. The photographic evidence of mutilation, torture, electric shocks and eye-gouging are impossible to ignore, but the West remains indifferent.

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Terrorism: Why They Want to Kill Us

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.25.2011

There can sometimes be a case for military intervention or use of drones. But the high costs of these tactics must be recognized and weighed. To reduce terrorism, Washington should do less, not more, abroad.

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Chechnya: "We Will Make You Feel What We Feel"

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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An independent Chechnya would be unstable and violent. But that is better than the savagery and atrocities that this terrible conflict continues to generate.

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Chechnya Reignited: A Promise Unfulfilled in Russia's "Dirty War"

Diana Markosian | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is a conflict with no end in sight as Russians and Chechen rebels continue fighting over land, religion, independence and political control.

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Russia's Osama bin Laden: How the Most-Wanted Terrorists Escape Capture for So Long

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

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When one of the world's most powerful and ruthless armies is hunting you, how do you evade capture inside a wooded patch of mountains about the size of Yosemite national park?

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Doku Umarov, Chechen Rebel Leader, Claims Responsibility For Moscow Bombings In Video

Posted 05.25.2011

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Doku Umarov, a leader of the Chechen resistance, has used a YouTube video to take responsibility for the two suicide bombings on Moscow's subway Monda...

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Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia (New York Review)

The New York Review Of Books | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Moscow recovers from and responds to Monday's suicide bombings, we can turn to writing and literature from the past few decades to help us understa...

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Russia Suicide Bombs: Two Explosions In Dagestan After Twin Attacks In Moscow

AP | ARSEN MOLLAYEV and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 05.25.2011

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MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A Chechen militant claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on the Moscow subway in an Internet message posted Wednes...

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Moscow Suicide Bombing: 5 Books On Russia's Escalating Islamic Separatist Problem

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chechen rebels have taken credit for the Moscow bombing. The history of Russia's violent conflicts with Georgia is a long one. A number of books have ...

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Moscow Subway Bombings (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Double suicide bombings targeting Moscow subway stations during rush-hour killed over three dozen people Monday. While no one has claimed responsibili...

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