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Budennovsk
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Budennovsk 

from 1935 to 1957 the name of the city of Prikumsk in Stavropol’ Krai, RSFSR.
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In June 1995, Basayev personally led 200 armed fighters into Budyonnovsk in a region neighbouring Chechnya and took doctors and patients hostage at the local hospital.
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In 1995, Chechen rebels seized a hospital in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk, taking some 2, 000 people hostage.
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The Chechens, who are demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from their breakaway republic, have plunged President Boris Yeltsin into a new hostage crisis similar to the one last June which left more than 100 dead in Budyonnovsk.
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