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Under a banner that reads "No murders," a Russian army officer in St. Petersburg signs a letter to protest the Russian-Chechen war. With an end to the war nowhere in sight, a group of Russian soldiers' mothers and other anti-war activists left Moscow Wednesday for Grozny, the capital of breakaway Chechnya. The group of about 200 will travel by car to a city in southern Russia, then walk the remaining 200 miles to Grozny. The protest journey was timed to begin on International Women's Day, a major Russian holiday.