A Russian soldier watches a Chechen man on a cart approach the Adler border checkpoint in Ingushetia February 22. A policeman on the border told Reuters on Tuesday that it would be sealed later due to fears of attacks by rebel fighters on March 23, the 56th anniversary of the start of the deportation of about 650,000 Chechens to Central Asia and Siberia in rail cattle cars.

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