Chechen president-elect Akhmad Kadyrov (C) walks to attend his
inauguration at a ceremony in Chechnya's second largest city of
Gudermes, October 19, 2003. Amid extreme security, Kadyrov was sworn in
as president of Chechnya on Sunday, capping a political process backed
by the Kremlin as a recipe for peace but denounced as a sham by rebels
and rights groups. REUTERS/Adlan Khasanov

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