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  • 'Welcome To Hell, Part II': The Second Chechen

    2019.10.1  1 A man waving a separatist Chechen flag in Grozny, the region’s capital, in 1995. Many buildings were destroyed by Russian

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  • Understanding the Chechen conflict: Research and reading list

    2013.4.22  News that the primary suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings are of Chechen heritage resurrected interest in historically troubled Chechnya, an

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  • Western Views of the Chechen Conflict (Chapter 11)

    2012.3.5  Thus throughout the crisis Western governments have always publicly backed Moscow's policy on Chechnya. The West has refused to recognize Chechnya's

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  • 20 years of Putin: Inside the brutal Chechen war

    2020.1.15  Strictly speaking, the Second Chechen war was not of Vladimir Putin’s making. When it began in September 1999, Boris Yeltsin

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  • Russia: Annotated Timeline Of The Chechen

    2006.2.7  Yeltsin's Security Council secretary, General Aleksandr Lebed and Chechen rebel chief of staff, Maskhadov, sign a cease-fire agreement on 22 August followed on 30 August by the so-called the ...

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  • The Internationalisation of the Russian-Chechen Conflict:

    2017.8.9  First Chechen War was enacted de facto by the 'Decree on Measures for Restoring Constitutional Law and Order', the Second Chechen War (1999) was

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  • The Bleeding Puzzle of Chechnya and Dagestan

    2020.5.8  For the most part, Dagestani authorities attempted to prevent the same level of turbulence in Chechnya, but violent spillover during the Chechen wars scarred Dagestan’s territories as well. Radical

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  • Humanitarian Aid for the Victims of the Chechen war

    2015.5.29  An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Chechen civilians died, hundred of thousands were wounded; over 270,000 people fled to neighbouring Ingushetia and

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  • Russia's relentless hunt of Chechens decades after Putin's war

    2022.5.5  Advertising Tens of thousands fled the small Muslim-majority republic in the North Caucasus in the aftermath of two bloody wars with Moscow, the last launched by

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  • Putin’s First Invasion: The 1999 Invasion of Chechnya - History

    A Post-Soviet Chechnya and the First Chechen War. The road to Chechen independence began in the turbulent final years of Mikhail Gorbachev’s reign as General Secretary of the Soviet Union.Chechen leaders, led by Major General Dzhokhar Dudayev, took advantage of the turmoil by officially asserting their independence on September 6, 1991.

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  • Russia's Brutality in Ukraine Is Rooted in the Chechen Wars

    2023.4.20  More on this topic. During Russia’s wars on Chechnya, videos of beheadings of Russian soldiers shocked and dismayed Russian society. But only for a while. Today, that kind of brutality has ...

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  • The real role of pro-Russian Chechens in Ukraine

    2022.8.18  Even after the Kremlin declared the end of the second Chechen war in 2009, thousands of police officers and servicemen from across Russia were deployed to the war-scarred province for two-month

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  • Who is Ramzan Kadyrov, the brutal Chechen leader ... - The

    2022.3.16  In 1994, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s president, launched the first Chechen war, a bloody attempt to regain control of the territory; it ended in 1996 with Chechnya’s de facto independence intact.

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  • The Fluidity of Chechnya’s Conflicts: From Nationalism to

    2020.10.26  The study of the Chechen wars that shaped the North Caucasus following the Soviet Union’s demise is much ploughed terrain. While the first Chechen war (1994–1996) received a secular narrative, seeking national self-determination, the second war (1999–2009) propelled a religious narrative. One critical question remains unanswered.

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  • Chechnya profile - Timeline - BBC News

    2018.1.17  1922 - Chechen autonomous region established; ... Up to 100,000 people - many of them civilians - are estimated killed in the 20-month war that follows. 1995 June - Chechen rebels seize hundreds ...

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  • Case study: The War in Chechnya and its Aftermath

    The Second Chechen War officially finished in 2009, when Russia ended its counterterrorism operation and the leader of the separatist government, Akhmed Zakayev, called for a halt to armed resistance. Nevertheless, violence continued as the Caucasus Emirate, followed by Islamic State’s Caucasus Province, carried on the fight against

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  • The Second Chechen War: The Information Component

    2018.9.23  The Chechen war added to the new Prime Minister's respect. As time went by, Putin began to use this newfound political capital and respect to win support for the federal government's militaristic policy in the North Caucasus. The rise in Putin's authority and influence brought additional supporters for the second Chechen war—political ...

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  • Putin May Use Chechen War Playbook In Ukraine, Says

    2022.3.6  The First Chechen War was in 1994-96 and the Second Chechen War began in 1999, with Moscow sending in forces to put down armed and political movements in Chechnya aimed at seceding from Russia.

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  • Unpacking the History of Urban Warfare and its Challenges

    2023.10.17  Lessons from Russia’s Chechen Wars. During the First Chechen War that began in 1994, the Russian Federation sought to reclaim the breakaway Republic of Chechnya. The urban combat that unfolded in this conflict was intense, with both sides employing distinct strategies. Chechen fighters, usually grouped in squads of about 25

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  • Battle of Grozny: 25 Years Ago the Russian Military Hit Rock

    2019.12.21  By various credible counts, around 8,000 Russian soldiers were listed as killed or missing in action in the first Chechen War, and 52,000 wounded; while between 50,000 and 100,000 Chechen ...

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  • Russia's wars in Chechnya offer a grim warning of what

    2022.3.12  A Chechen man walks across a square at the Presidential Palace in Grozny in January 1996. Russia heavily bombed Chechnya during its 1994-96 war there. Russia lost that war and signed a peace treaty, agreeing to leave Chechnya and giving the territory autonomy, though not formal independence. Russia reinvaded Chechnya in 1999.

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  • First Chechen War - New World Encyclopedia

    5 天之前  The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in Chechnya's de facto independence from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial campaign of 1994–1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to

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  • Russia: Annotated Timeline Of The Chechen

    2006.2.7  Yeltsin's Security Council secretary, General Aleksandr Lebed and Chechen rebel chief of staff, Maskhadov, sign a cease-fire agreement on 22 August followed on 30 August by the so-called the ...

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  • Is a new armed uprising on the horizon in Chechnya? - OC

    2022.8.8  A group of Chechen fighters in Ukraine have declared their intention to start a new uprising to break Chechnya from Russian rule. But while some opposition movements claim to have imminent plans to go on the attack, whether these words can turn into action is far from certain. Two figures in combat gear and black masks with rifles slung across ...

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  • Prisoners of the Caucasus: Protracted Social Conflict in Chechnya

    2018.11.7  The invasion of Chechnya in 1994 was “peacemaking”: using force to compel Chechen secessionists to back down. Despite overwhelming force, Russia lost the first Russo-Chechen War and was forced to sign a ceasefire agreement and withdraw in 1996. The war was an unmitigated military and political disaster for Russia.

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  • Chechens are fighting in Ukraine. But are they more hype

    2022.3.24  During the Second Chechen War, which began in 1999 and coincided with the rise of Putin, Kadyrov’s men helped Moscow wrest control of the Chechen Republic from separatist

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  • Frontiers To Be or Not to Be a Chechen? The Second

    2021.3.31  Approximately a quarter of Chechnya's population left the republic due to the Russo-Chechen wars and the brutality of the regime established after them. Many of the Chechen migrants settled in Europe where cultural, religious, and social differences compelled them to go through the daunting process of identity negotiation. Although most

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  • Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from

    2010.2.9  For example, attacks decreased by about 40% after pro-Russian Chechen sweeps relative to similar Russian-only operations. These changes are difficult to reconcile with notions of Chechen solidarity or different tactical choices. Instead, evidence, albeit tentative, points toward the existence of a wartime “coethnicity advantage.”

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  • What You Need to Know About Chechnya - The Atlantic

    2013.4.19  Chechnya, or the Chechen Republic, is a small republic of Russia in the country's southwestern region. Located in the northern part of the Caucasus mountain range, Chechnya's 1.3 million ...

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  • The Internationalisation of the Russian-Chechen Conflict:

    2017.8.9  thankfulness that we, unfortunately, are fighting it alone'.1 The war was already portrayed in Russia as an 'anti-terrorist operation' more than a year before the 9/11 attacks,2 and indeed, a debate about the internationalisation of the Chechen conflict had been going on ever since the first Chechen War of 1994-1996.3 Nonetheless, on the

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