RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA COOPERATE IN SEARCH FOR MIAS.

The Russian and Chechen authorities will work together to look for 1,233 Russian servicemen and 240 civilians who remain unaccounted for since Russia’s military intervention in Chechnya. President Aslan Maskhadov and his government have promised to help the Russian authorities search for the missing. (AP, February 24)

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