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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 205, Part I, 23 October 2000

CHECHEN PRESIDENT URGED TO RESIGN. Speaking on Chechen television on 21
October, interim Chechen administration head Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov again
called on President Aslan Maskhadov to resign and go into exile, ITAR-TASS
reported. Kadyrov claimed that "the majority" of Chechen fighters have
already given up armed resistance to the Russian forces. An elder of the
village of Goity in Urus-Martan Raion was assassinated that same evening.
On 20 October, Kadyrov said in Gudermes that by 1 November, all Chechen
ministries will move back to Grozny from their temporary quarters in
Gudermes but that his own office will remain in Gudermes as no suitable
premises can be found for it in the devastated capital. Kadyrov attributed
that lack to Moscow's having made available only 119 million rubles ($4
million) in funds for reconstruction over the past four months. LF

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