Chechnya still lacks stabilityRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus - Military action in the mountains of Chechnya has not abated. This morning a detachment of Russian marines were blown up by a land mine on a road leading to the Dargo settlement in the Vedensky district.
One marine died enroute to the hospital and two others were severely injured, said local officials.
The mine had been set off via remote control by insurgents who managed to escape.
On Wednesday, Chechen guerrillas repeatedly shot at a Russian military helicopter Mi-24 causing the pilot to make an emergency landing in the middle of a street in a residential area of the district's center of Vedeno.
In Grozny, a group of masked armed men robbed the house of Musa Kadyrov, deputy chief of the internal security department of the Chechen Interior Ministry. Kadyrov was not at home at the time, but the intruders forced his wife at gunpoint to give them all her jewelry, valued at about 140,000 roubles (approximately $5,000). The case is now under investigation.
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