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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.
House of Fools (Russian: Дом дураков, Dom durakov) is a 2002 Russian film by Andrei Konchalovsky about psychiatric patients and combatants during the First Chechen War. It stars Julia Vysotskaya and Sultan Islamov and features a number of cameo appearances by Bryan Adams, with the music composed by Eduard Artemyev.
The Chechen militants had aimed to pass through Ingushetia from the territory of Georgia with the aim of further passage to Chechnya. [2] At night of 26 September 2002, around 100 to 300 [a] Chechen militants under command of Ruslan Gelayev or Abdul-Malik Mezhidov [b] entered into battle with Russian troops near the Ingush village of Galashki after part of the Chechen militants under command ...
August 19 - Fighting persisted in Chechnya, with six Russian servicemen killed and 11 others wounded. August 20 - Fighting in Chechnya left eight Russian soldiers and 12 rebels dead. August 21 - Nine Russian soldiers were killed and two wounded by a remote-controlled car bomb, which went off as a column of military vehicles drove by. [21]
The goal of a regimental combat group task force of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) tactical group in the area, based on the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 76th Division and including also teams from the GRU Spetsnaz, and the elite Vympel group of the FSB, was to block an exit from a gorge, while other Russian forces attempted to encircle a large Chechen force departing the village of ...
The 1999–2000 battle of Grozny or Operation Wolf Hunt was the siege and assault of the Chechen capital Grozny by Russian forces, lasting from late 1999 to early 2000. The siege and assault on the city resulted in the near total destruction of the urban area.