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The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War.The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan France Earth and Ashes: خاکستر و خاک: Atiq Rahimi: Drama. Based on a novel Earth and Ashes. 2005 Russia Ukraine Finland The 9th Company: 9 рота: Fyodor Bondarchuk: Action, Drama, History, War. Battle for Hill 3234: 2006 France Germany Afghanistan The Soldier's Star: L'étoile du soldat: Christophe de Ponfilly: Drama ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
Russian–Chechen relations (1996–1999) Political tensions were fueled in part by allegedly Chechen or pro-Chechen terrorist and criminal activity in Russia, as well as by border clashes. On 16 November 1996, in Kaspiysk (Dagestan), a bomb destroyed an apartment building housing Russian border guards, killing 68 people.
Carrying out the U.S. Army's first cavalry charge of the 21st century, the American and Northern Alliance forces disperse the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and Dostum tracks down and kills Razzan. After Spencer is medevaced, Nelson and Dostum continue to Mazar-i-Sharif but find Atta Muhammad has beaten them there.
Afghan Breakdown ( Russian: Афганский излом, translit. Afganskiy Izlom) is a 1991 war drama film about the Soviet–Afghan War directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union ( Lenfilm ). [ 1] Michele Placido plays the protagonist, Major Bandura, a commander of a unit of Soviet paratroopers, co-starring ...
Czarist Russia first established diplomatic relations with Afghanistan in 1837, at a time of strained diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Russia,[5]the "Great Game". Imperial Russia desired a direct trading route with India. Initial contact with Afghanistan was viewed with suspicion by the British Empire, which suspected Russia of ...
British invasions: 1838–1842, 1878–1880, and 1919. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Afghanistan was invaded three times from British India . The First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838–1842 was conducted with the intention of limiting Russian influence in the country and quelling raiding from across the border.