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This is Richard Valeriani
reporting live...
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for CNN from the French
aircraft carrier Foch...
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somewhere in the Mediterranean.
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Six days ago,
as the rebellion in Chechnya...
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spread to the neighboring Caucasus
republics, the Russian president...
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ordered massive bombing strikes
against rebel positions...
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around Rutul and Belokany.
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Appalled at the loss of human life,
the President of the United States...
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joined by the French president
and the British prime minister...
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suspended all foreign aid
to Russia.
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Ultranationalist leader
Vladimir Radchenko...
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denounced the U.S. Pressure
as an act of war...
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against the Russian Republic
and Russian sovereignty.
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Denouncing his own president
as a U.S. Puppet...
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he called on the Russian people
to join him in revolt.
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He said, "This brutish and hypocritical
American intervention...
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will not go unanswered."
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On Tuesday, at 10:00
in the morning Moscow time...
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the Russian parliament was suspended
and martial law was declared.