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| | M&M Art Travel - History of Chechnya |
 | | In March, 2003, voters approved a new constitution for Chechnya, and in October Akhmad Kadyrov was elected president, but the election was generally regarded as neither free nor fair. |
 | | On Aug.29, another Russian-supported leader, Alu Alkhanov, was elected president of Chechnya with 73.5% of the vote. |
 | | Between Sept. 1-3, about 30 heavily armed guerrillas seized a school in Beslan, near Chechnya, and held about 1,100 young schoolchildren, teachers, and parents hostage. |
| www.mmarttravel.com /newsletter/2004-09/chechnya.php (560 words) |
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