Putin dashes to Chechnya, shows support for Kadyrov

2009/08/24 14:22:27 @Reuters: International News

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin visited Russia's restive Chechnya region on Monday, showing support for a local leader accused by rights groups of abuses and demonstrating Moscow's presence in a mainly Muslim region racked by violence. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=b4xKcuCx7CM:HnfpT4rYmkg:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=b4xKcuCx7CM:HnfpT4rYmkg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=b4xKcuCx7CM:HnfpT4rYmkg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=b4xKcuCx7CM:HnfpT4rYmkg:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=b4xKcuCx7CM:HnfpT4rYmkg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/b4xKcuCx7CM" height="1" width="1"/
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