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News. Shopping. Main Menu. News. News. Entertainment. Lighter Side. Politics. Science & Tech. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. ... (Reuters) - The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov ...
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 ...
Russia's Defence Ministry issued no statement on the action. Ukraine's military has warned in recent weeks of a buildup of Russian forces around Sumy region in preparation for military action.
On 22 June 2001, Russian troops launched a zachistka on Alkhan-Kala, a large village south-west of Grozny, triggering an armed clash with Chechen separatists.Alkhan-Kala was the home village of Arbi Barayev, one of the most powerful separatist warlords in Chechnya and founder of the Special Purpose Islamic Regiment, an Islamist organized crime syndicate that had terrorized Chechnya during its ...
The Chechen–Russian conflict (Russian: Чеченский конфликт, romanized: Chechensky konflikt; Chechen: Нохчийн-Оьрсийн дов, romanized: Noxçiyn-Örsiyn dov) was the centuries-long ethnic and political conflict, often armed, between the Russian, Soviet and Imperial Russian governments and various Chechen forces.
The Borozdinovskaya operation was a zachistka-type (Russian: зачистка) operation by Russian forces in Borozdinovskaya , Chechnya, on June 4, 2005, during the Second Chechen War. Members of the Special Battalion Vostok , an ethnic Chechen Spetsnaz unit of the Russian GRU , killed or disappeared 12 people in the ethnic minority Avar ...
Kadyrov enjoys wide leeway from Putin to run Chechnya ruthlessly as his personal fiefdom, but he angered even pro-Kremlin hardliners this week by praising his 15-year-old son for beating up an ...
On July 30, 1995, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, but in December, Chechen militants declared the region's independence in an attempt to sabotage elections falsified [2] by federal authorities. In early December, they seized the administration buildings.