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A Chechen woman crosses Minutka Square in Grozny, Thursday, February
17, 2000. Military officials confirmed plans to seal off Chechnya's
ruined capital Grozny starting Friday. Presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky
said army commanders cannot allow Grozny residents to return because of
fears that rebels will sneak into the city in civilian disguise. He said
300 rebels are still hiding in Grozny. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Feb 17 4:10 PM EST |
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Chechen refugees carry bread they received in the Sputnik refugee camp
near Sleptsovskaya, Thursday, February 17, 2000. The five-month-old war
in Chechnya has forced some 250,000 people to flee their homes and
their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 17 3:10 PM EST |
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Chechen refugees Rukia Ilyasova and her daughter Radima sits in front
of a stove in the Sputnik refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya, Thursday, February
17, 2000. The five-month-old war in Chechnya has forced some 250,000
people to flee their homes and their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 17 3:05 PM EST |
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Local residents stand outside their damaged house in downtown Grozny,
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2000. Military officials confirmed plans to seal off
Chechnya's
ruined capital Grozny starting Friday. Presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky
said army commanders cannot allow Grozny residents to return because of
fears that rebels will sneak into the city in civilian disguise. He said
300 rebels are still hiding in Grozny. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Feb 17 2:46 PM EST |
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Russian federal troops control a street near Minutka Square
in Grozny, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2000. Russian federal forces press
on their mopping up operations to root out rebels who continue to put up
resistance in some sections of the Chechen city. Presidential aide Sergei
Yastrzhembsky said army commanders cannot allow Grozny residents to return
because of fears that rebels will sneak into the city in civilian disguise.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Feb 17 2:05 PM EST |
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Chechen refugee children play a game using sticks and an empty plastic
bottle in a refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya, Thursday, February 17, 2000.
The five-month-old war in Chechnya has forced some 250,000 people
to flee their homes and their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 17 2:05 PM EST |
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Chechen refugees fill their buckets with water from a water tank brought
to a refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya, Thursday, February 17, 2000. The
five-month-old war in Chechnya has forced some 250,000 people to
flee their homes and their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 17 2:01 PM EST |
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A vehicle makes its way through a deserted Minutka Square in the Chechen
capital Grozny, wrecked by war, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2000. Russian
federal forces press on their mopping up operations to root out rebels
who continue to put up resistance in some sections of the Chechen city.
Presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said army commanders cannot allow
Grozny residents to return because of fears that rebels will sneak into
the city in civilian disguise. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Feb 17 12:25 PM EST |
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Two Russian soldiers light cigarettes as they control Minutka
square in Grozny, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2000. Military officials confirmed
plans to seal off Chechnya's ruined capital Grozny starting Friday.
Presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said army commanders cannot allow
Grozny residents to return because of fears that rebels will sneak into
the city in civilian disguise. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Feb 17 12:01 PM EST |
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Russia protested to the United States on Thursday over its talks
with a Chechen official as pressure mounted on Moscow to answer international
accusations that its military had violated human rights in Chechnya.
Local residents are seen here receiving food handouts distributed by the
Russian
emergency services in the Staropromyslovsky region of the Chechen capital
Grozny Sunday. (Reuters)
- Feb 17 11:57 AM EST |
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Russian federal troops control a street in downtown Grozny,
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000. The forces continue their mopping up operations
to root out rebels who continue to put up resistance in some sections of
the city. (AP Photo)
- Feb 16 7:10 PM EST |
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A Chechen woman passes the remains of rockets, in downtown Grozny,
Wednesday Feb. 16, 2000. In the capital Grozny, federal forces continued
their mopping up operations to root out rebels who continue to put up resistance
in some sections of the city. (AP Photo)
- Feb 16 7:05 PM EST |
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Chechen women wash a baby in a tent in a refugee camp near Karabulak,
Wednesday, February 16, 2000. The five-month-old war in Chechnya
has forced some 250,000 people to flee their homes and their livelihoods.
(AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
- Feb 16 1:45 PM EST |
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Two Russian soldiers sleep while sitting atop an armored vehicle
at a checkpoint on the border with Chechnya near Sleptsovskaya,
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000. Russian forces and Chechen rebels clashed
in the foothills of southern Chechnya as Russia prepared
for what it called a decisive offensive on separatist strongholds in the
mountains. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 16 1:45 PM EST |
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Two Chechen refugee women light a gas stove for cooking in a tent in
the Sputnik refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya, Wednesday, February 16, 2000.
The five-month-old war in Chechnya has forced some 250,000 people
to flee their homes and their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 16 1:45 PM EST |
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Moscow's Interior Ministry officers unload a coffin with a body of
their comrade, who was killed in Chechnya, from a cargo plane at
Chkalovsky miliary airbase outside Moscow Tuesday night, February 15, 2000.
Col. Gen. Valery Manilov, said Friday that 1,175 servicemen have been killed
and 3,544 injured since the start of the operation in Chechnya.
But many observers have said the toll appears to be far higher. (AP Photo/Ivan
Sekretarev)
- Feb 16 7:45 AM EST |
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Biliset Tasuyeva, 83, wipes tears from her eyes in a psychological
hospital in the village of Psedakhi in Ingushetia near the Chechen border
on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2000. She was evacuated along with 10 other people
from a clinic in the Chechen capital Grozny, where their symptoms were
compounded by fear of artillery and bombing over a three-month period;
they left Dec. 18 after bombs struck the hospital. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 16 2:40 AM EST |
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Local residents walk in downtown Grozny, Monday, Feb. 14, 2000. The
Russian
forces seized the Chechen capital Grozny last week, but are likely to face
a long stuggle to destroy rebel bases hidden deep in the mountains, and
to prevent guerilla raids. (AP Photo/str)
- Feb 16 2:15 AM EST |
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Russian troops explode the remains of houses, destroyed by warplanes
and artillery in downtown Grozny, Monday, Feb. 14 2000. The Russian
forces seized the capital Grozny last week, but are likely to face a long
stuggle to destroy rebel bases hidden deep in the mountains, and to prevent
guerrilla raids. (AP Photo/str)
- Feb 16 2:15 AM EST |
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Chechen refugee Alikhan Atsiyev, left, makes a brick stove while his
grandmother and other family members look on, in an old cow barn where
they are going to live in a refugee camp near Karabulak, Ingushetia, Russia
Tuesday, February 15, 2000. The five-month-old war in Chechnya has
forced some 250,000 people to flee their homes and their livelihood. (AP
Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 15 2:05 PM EST |
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Chechen refugee Rustam Yusupov chops a board for floor in an old cow
barn where he making a room to live with his family in a refugee camp near
Karabulak, Ingushetia, Russia Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2000. The five-month-old
war in Chechnya has forced some 250,000 people to flee their homes
and their livelihood. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 15 2:01 PM EST |
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Two refugee boys play with a rocket propelled grenade weapon they made
out of two plastic bottles in the Sputnik refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya,
Ingushetia, Russia Tuesday, February 15, 2000. The five-month-old
war in Chechnya has forced some 250,000 people to flee their homes
and their livelihood. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
- Feb 15 1:55 PM EST |
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A russian army helicopter gunship flies over an artillery position
35 km (19 miles) south of Grozny Monday, Feb. 14, 2000. The military is
concentrating its attacks against the Argun and Vedeno gorges in southern
Chechnya,
seen as last major separatist strongholds in Chechnya.
Russian
aircraft and artillery have been bombarding the gorges for weeks, trying
to rout rebels from their hide-outs. (AP Photo/ str)
- Feb 15 7:41 AM EST |
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Russian soldiers carry a bomb to a waiting warplane at the Russian
military air base in Mozdok, Ossetia, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2000. Despite
difficult weather conditions, Russian Su-24 and Su-25 warplanes,
accompanied by Mi-24 helicopter gunships flew more than 100 missions in
Chechnya
over the past 24 hours, targeting the Argun and Vedeno gorges, according
to Interfax Russian news agency (AP Photo/Str)
- Feb 13 7:31 AM EST |
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A russian soldier checks the documents of an unidentified Chechen
man, a resident of Grozny, Saturday, February 12, 2000. Russian
troops fought Chechen rebels Sunday for control of a strategic gorge in
Chechnya's
southern mountains while Russian warplanes continued their campaign
to wipe out their camps and bases. (AP Photo/Elmira Kozhayeva)
- Feb 13 6:05 AM EST |
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Deshi Yandarbiyev, left, looks at the burned remains of her two sisters
Sheyma and Sheymani, killed in Grozny a month ago, during a farewell ceremony
at the Sputnik refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya, Ingushetia, Russia
Saturday, Feb. 12, 2000. Deshi brought the remains of her sisters to the
refugee camp to bury. The exact circumstances of their deaths is not known.
Months of heavy bombing and shelling, followed by intense street-fighting,
have left the city in ruins and many refugees say they do not plan to return.
(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Feb 12 1:26 PM EST |
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Refugee women pray and cry during a mourning ceremony of the two Yandarbiyev
sisters killed in Grozny a month ago, at the Sputnik refugee camp near
Sleptsovskaya, Russia Saturday, February 12, 2000. Their sister
Deshi brought the remains of the Yandarbiyev sisters to the refugee camp
to bury. The cause of the sisters deaths is not known. (AP Photo/Sergei
Grits)
- Feb 12 12:51 PM EST |
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Russian federal troops control a street in downtown Grozny,
wrecked by war, Friday February 11, 2000. In the capital Grozny, federal
forces continued their mopping up operations to root out rebels who continue
to put up resistance in some sections of the city. (AP Photo/Str)
- Feb 12 7:01 AM EST |
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An elderly local resident eats bread outdoors at a place where he can
get free food in Grozny, Friday, February 11, 2000. Russian officials
estimate that 10,000 civilians remain in Grozny devastated by months of
bombing. The city once had a population of about 400,000. (AP Photo/Elmira
Kozhayeva)
- Feb 12 7:01 AM EST |
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A refugee cries during a protest against Russia's war in Chechnya
at the Adler checkpoint near the Chechen border near Sleptsovskaya, Ingushetia,
Russia
Friday, Feb. 11, 2000. Refugees have gathered for protests almost daily
at the checkpoint, where Russian units enter and leave the breakaway
republic. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
- Feb 11 3:06 PM EST |
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