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The tension between Chechnya and Russia over independence ultimately led to Russian intervention in the republic, in which the Russians covertly tried to oust the government of Dzhokhar Dudayev. The First Chechen War began in 1994, when Russian forces entered Chechnya on the premise of restoring constitutional order.
Islamists from Chechnya and other North Caucasian republics have been blamed for a number of terrorist attacks throughout Russia, [57] most notably the Russian apartment bombings in 1999, [58] the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002, [59] the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004, the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings [60] and the Domodedovo ...
On 26 September 2002, after Saddam Hussein's meeting with the Chechen pro-Moscow President Akhmad Kadyrov, Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri stated the country's position with regard to Chechnya, namely that Chechnya is an integral part of Russia. "Iraq is firmly against any manifestations of separatism in Russia."
The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (/ ɪ tʃ ˈ k ɛr i ə / itch-KERR-ee-ə; Chechen: Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, romanized: Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri; Russian: Чеченская Республика Ичкерия, romanized: Chechenskaya Respublika Ichkeriya; abbreviated as "ChRI" or "CRI"), known simply as Ichkeria, and also known as Chechnya, is a former de facto ...
He described the decision to send troops back to Chechnya as one he’d made “reluctantly.” Yeltsin stepped down on Dec. 31, 1999 , appointing Putin as his successor.
The bombardment of the city continued; according to Russia's ministry for emergency situations, civilians remaining in Grozny had been estimated at anywhere from 8,000 to 35,000. [19] Russian troops firing from Achkhoy-Martan, just outside Chechnya on 2 December.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov promised on Tuesday to take revenge for a drone attack that caused a fire at a military training academy in his south Russian region. Ukraine has frequently struck ...
While Chechnya, a conservative Muslim-majority republic in the North Caucasus, has remained part of Russia after it waged two brutal wars for independence in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has ...