Chechnya/Russia - Fighting

STORY: FIGHTING LOCATION: VARIOUS DATE: 2 JANUARY 1994 DURATION: Rebels repel Russians after fierce street fighting; POWs paraded; Presidential Palace protected Chechen rebels fought street-by-street battles with Russian troops for control of the breakaway republic’s capital of Grozny on Monday (2/1), leaving scores of soldiers and civilians dead and wounded. A few hundred Chechen fighters held the prized presidential palace despite a ferocious pounding by Russian tanks. The where