Chechnya Votes to Remain Part of Europe

World | March 24, 2003, Monday // 00:00

Voters in Chechnya overwhelmingly approved a constitution yesterday that the Kremlin asserts will end nearly a decade of bloodshed but will keep the separatist republic in Russia. Results from 196 of 418 electoral districts showed slightly more than 96 percent of voters there supporting the constitution, designed, Moscow says, to push the breakaway region to peace. Russia's Central Election Commission said 207,390 people in those districts voted for the constitution, while 5,810 voted against. More than 79 percent of the 540,000 eligible voters cast ballots, election officials said.The Kremlin and Chechnya's Moscow-appointed administration portrayed the referendum as a key step toward peace and a return to normal life in the region. Since 1994, Chechnya has experienced two wars and an interim period marked by lawlessness.

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