Still, unemployment is endemic and daily violence persists, with rebel fighters staging regular hit-and-run attacks on troops and police and skirmishes between feuding criminal gangs vying for some of Chechnya's substantial oil wealth.
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Kremlin-backed party leads Chechnya poll
`LATEST FARCE' Election officials claim a turnout as high as 70 percent in the first parliamentary elections in over six years, while analysts denounced the vote as rigged
AGENCIES , GROZNY, RUSSIA
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