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Kremlin`s candidate sweeps Chechnya polls
Moscow, Oct 06: Chechnya`s Kremlin-appointed interim head Ahmad Haji Kadyrov Gudermesi, a prominent ex-jehadi, has swept yesterday`s presidential poll in the war-torn Caucasian province of the Russian Federation by bagging over 80 per cent votes, preliminary results indicated today.
Moscow, Oct 06: Chechnya's Kremlin-appointed interim
head Ahmad Haji Kadyrov Gudermesi, a prominent ex-jehadi, has
swept yesterday's presidential poll in the war-torn Caucasian
province of the Russian Federation by bagging over 80 per cent
votes, preliminary results indicated today.
According to the Russian media reports, at yesterday's
polls, turnout was 81.4 per cent in spite of terrorist threats
and stringent security steps were taken to prevent any single
terror attack.
Heavy turnout at Chechnya polls is seen as a personal
victory for President Vladimir Putin, who rose to power in the
backdrop of Chechnya War, when weakened Boris Yeltsin stepped
down in December 1999.
Kadyrov, 54, was Moscow's fierce enemy during the first
Chechnya War in 1992-96 and as chief mufti of the separatist
regime had galvanised the Chechens in fighting the Federal
Army by declaring a jehad against Kremlin.
Bureau Report