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15 February 2007 [23:11] - Today.Az
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov as acting president, according to the Kremlin press office.
The dismissal of Alu Alkhanov came after days of speculation that he was engaged in an intense power struggle with Kadyrov, who is alleged by human rights groups to be responsible for abductions and detention of civilians and suspected separatist rebels. The Associated Press /The International Herald Tribune/
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