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A bombed-out building serves as a backdrop for two boys as they buy bread from a kiosk in Grozny, Chechnya. Ivan Rybkin, Russia's new envoy to Chechnya, told separatist leaders in the breakaway republic that he would honor the peace agreement reached by his predecessor, Gen. Alexander Lebed, who was recently sacked by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. But disagreement remains over the deal.

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