GROZNY -- Given that Chechnya has suffered three years of conflict and emigration, many here were astounded when the results of the first census since the second Chechen war showed that the population had undergone a miraculous expansion.
Provisional returns from the census showed that Chechnya's population stood at about 1.08 million -- around 300,000 higher than 1999 estimates.
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