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As he begins recounting his story, the film cuts to Chechnya in the summer of 2001, during the Second Chechen War. Being held captive by Chechen warlord Aslan Gugayev ( Georgy Gurguliya ), Ivan serves as a domestic slave and Aslan's communications specialist, since Ivan graduated from a computer school and speaks English.
Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the First Chechen War (1994–1996), the Dagestan incursions (1999), the Second Chechen War (1999–2009), the Insurgency in Ingushetia (2009–2017), the Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–2017) and the Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus (2017–present).
April 6 - Five Russian soldiers have been killed in Chechnya when their armoured vehicle detonated a mine outside Grozny.; April 14 - Russia forces have launched a major operation in southern Chechnya involving aircraft and heavy guns against the Vedensky District after the Chechen guerrillas claimed the lives of nine Russian servicemen in explosions and hit-and-run tactics attacks.
The War of Dagestan was used as a casus belli to trigger the Second Chechen War, when Russian federal troops entered Chechnya and ended its independence. By June 2000, the war had entered an "insurgency phase", where Russian troops would perform several day-long zachistka (Russian: зачистка) operations that became notorious for their ...
Cadets of the Ichkeria Chechen National Guard, 1999 Situation in Chechnya in the period between the end of the First Chechen War and the beginning of the Second Chechen War: In red the territory under the control of the Russian Federation, in green the territory under the control of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and in grey the areas under ...
Films about the First Chechen War (1994-1996) and the Second Chechen War (1999-2009). Pages in category "Chechen wars films" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Akhmad Kadyrov, the then chief mufti of separatist Chechnya, defected to the Russian side in the Second Chechen War in 1999, and the Kadyrovites began fighting separatists and jihadists during the "guerrilla phase" as a de facto unit of the state police after he was appointed Chechen President in July 2000. Akhmad Kadyrov was assassinated in 2004.
April 6 - Chechen rebels killed four servicemen and wounded 10 others in attacks. April 8 - A Russian armored personnel carrier hit a land mine and exploded in Grozny, killing and injuring several soldiers. April 10 - Six Russian troops and one local police officer were killed in Chechnya, while two other policemen were kidnapped. [4]