City in ruins: Red Cross workers provide a lifeline to war-torn Grozny

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Seventy Red Cross workers, including four Canadians, are helping to distribute food, clothing and medical care to the many injured and displaced people living in and around Grozny, Chechnya. Russian forces continue to bombard Grozny, and now control 80% of the city.

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City of despair

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Grozny has been ravaged by the war between Chechen separatists and the Russian military, and its residents lead lives of quiet desperation. The occupied city, which once was home to 400,000 people, now houses an estimated 125,000, including some 50,000 refugees.

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A fatal phone call for Moscow's nemesis; the death of a rebel clouds peace prospects

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Russian forces traced Dudayev's whereabouts from signals emitted by his satellite phone and launched an air-to-surface missile on Apr 21, 1996, that killed Dudayev and two aides. It is unclear how his death will affect the struggle for chechnya independence.

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