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06 March 2007 Investigation of charges against Basayev-led crime group completed
The Russian Federal Prosecutor General's Office has completed the investigation of criminal charges brought against 12 members of an international crime group operating in the North Caucasus, the department's press service said in a statement on Monday.
"On June 2004, criminal groups numbering over 300 men led by Shamil Basayev, Saudi subject Taukfik al-Jedani also known as abu-Zeid, and others carried out attacks on policemen, servicemen and civilians in Ingushetia, killing 80 people," the statement said.
Interfax
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06 March 2007 New Chechen president pledges end to refugee centres
New Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has promised to close all the accommodation centres for Chechens displaced by the conflict with Russia "by the end of the year", Interfax agency reported Sunday.
"We will have no more temporary accommodation centres (in Chechnya) by the end of the year. This matter will be permanently closed," Interfax quoted the pro-Russian leader, who took power last week, as saying.
Kadyrov promised to build 20,000 new apartments in Chechnya and also to "little by little remove" some of the control posts that remain in the southern Russian province as a reminder of its two wars against Moscow.
Chechen authorities began closing the refugee centres last year on the orders of Kadyrov who, then Chechnya's prime minister, said they were "centres of infectious disease".
But NGOs have denounced the closures, warning of the trouble many residents -- who are in the centres because their homes were destroyed in the Chechen conflict - have in finding somewhere else to live.
AFP
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05 March 2007 New Chechen president to be inaugurated in April
Chechnya's newly appointed president will be inaugurated April 5, the North Caucasus republic's parliamentary speaker said Monday.
Russian President Vladimir nominated Ramzan Kadyrov to the presidency last Thursday, and the Chechen parliament approved him as president the following day.
"Under the Chechen Constitution, a newly elected president assumes office within 30 days the election result's announcement," Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov said, adding that the results will be published in local newspapers on March 6.
"The inauguration date has been set for April 5," he said.
In mid-February, Putin accepted the resignation of President Alu Alkhanov, whose term was due to expire in 2008, and appointed him to the post of deputy justice minister in the central government.
The move was widely seen as clearing the way for the ex-prime minister and acting President Kadyrov to become president.
Kadyrov, the son of the late President Akhmad Kadyrov, who had been in charge of his father's security and is popular among Chechens, was unable to take up the post following his father's assassination in May 2004, because at the time he had not yet reached the age of 30 - a precondition for presidential candidates set by the Chechen Constitution.
Alkhanov filled the position in the August 2004 election, in which he was the only candidate backed by the Kremlin.
Kadyrov was appointed first deputy prime minister and promoted to the post of advisor to Putin's envoy in the Southern Federal District several months later.
In November 2005, Kadyrov Jr. became acting prime minister and later prime minister of his home republic. In October, he turned 30 and following Alkhanov's resignation he was appointed acting president of Chechnya.
RIA Novosti
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