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Security Forces On High Alert In Chechnya
July 11, 2007
Grozny billboards showing Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Ramzan Kadyrov (ITAR-TASS)
Cars are being searched at checkpoints around Grozny and other towns.
In northern Grozny, one driver was told the reason his car was being searched was that Chechen rebels had received a big sum of money from abroad, and were preparing an attack.
The heightened security measures come as Chechnya's pro-Moscow president, Ramzan Kadyrov, is celebrating his first 100 days in office with a large-scale TV campaign.