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Happy Chechen New Year
 Five police officers and Russian soldiers were wounded by explosions and shootings in the Chechen capital New Year's night. A spokesman for the Regional Operative Headquarters in the Northern Caucasus told RIA Novosti an explosive device detonated in the Lenin district of Grozny wounded two police officers. Also, unidentified bandits opened fire on a group of Russian interior ministry soldiers guarding a military outpost in Yalkhoi-Mohk wounding three soldiers. A Stavropol resident taken hostage five months ago was released in Chechnya, said a Northern Caucasus spokesman Sunday. The spokesman told Novosti that Anatoly Chaika, a resident of the Stavrolpol region, was kidnapped in Ingushetia five months ago and kept in one of the abandoned villages in Chechnya.Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-01-03 |
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