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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Violence in Chechnya Continues Apace

Opposition Candidate Shot

MAKHACHKALA, Russia, Feb. 14 (Agence France-Presse) — A local legislative candidate was shot in the head Wednesday in the southern Russian region of Dagestan less than an hour after making a campaign speech on television here, a police spokeswoman said. Eduard Khidirov, the head of the Dagestani branch of the nationalist party Patriots of Russia, was in serious condition, the spokeswoman said.

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