New Chechen leader: I'm a target
Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin leader was sworn in as president of the turbulent Russian region on Tuesday and acknowledged immediately he was a prime target for assassination by separatists. Alu Alkhanov, a former interior minister handpicked for the job by President Vladimir Putin, was inaugurated in a ceremony in the government complex of the war-ruined regional capital Grozny. The ceremony was kept secret until the last moment.Full Story