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Week of Jan. 2, 1995
As the West refuses to take sides, Russia wrestles with nascent civil war in the southern province of Chechnya. It is a lose-lose proposition for Moscow, which can scarcely afford a draining war, nor can it afford to lose Chechnya's valuable oil pipeline.