Good hearts, bad lands

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Britons Jon James and his partner Camilla Carr have been abducted in Chechnya, where they had travelled to work at the Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development on the outskirts of Grozny. Their disappearance is the latest in a series of kidnappings which have taken place since shortly after a peace deal was agreed in Aug 1996, and some observers now believe that a sinister political force is involved. Foreign visitors are now at great danger in Chechnya, as are those who try to help them.

Political aspects, Chechnya, Russia, Kidnapping

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Russia's black knight makes a global move

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the tiny autonomous Russian republic of Kalmykia, places very strong emphasis on chess. He has decreed that all schoolchildren should study chess, and plans to create a development named Chess City. This will include homes for 5,000 people, a chess academy, a grand central square and three luxury hotels. The development will be subject to republican and federal law, but will have a 10-person parliament to make local laws.

Building, Developing, and General Contracting, GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS, Public Building Construction, Political activity, Buildings and facilities, Study and teaching, Chess, Kalmykia, Russia, Ilyumzhinov, Kirsan

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