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Eight Killed In Chechnya Clashes

Russian servicemen and Chechen separatist rebels clashed in Chechnya's Gudermes region today, leaving four servicemen and one rebel dead.

Gudermes is the hometown of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's powerful Moscow-backed prime minister.

RFE/RL's Russian Service also reports that two Russian servicemen and one Chechen militant were killed today in a separate shooting in Chechnya's mountainous Shatoi region.

Copyright (c) 2006. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org

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