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Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov [b] (born 5 October 1976) is a Russian politician and current Head of the Chechen Republic.He was formerly affiliated with the Chechen independence movement, through his father who was the separatist-appointed mufti of Chechnya.
Afterwards, the Kadyrovite OMON was run by Ruslan Alkhanov, a former rebel commander amnestied just a year before, [citation needed] and who later became the Chechnya's Interior Minister. [ 12 ] In October 2003, Akhmad Kadyrov became the President of the Chechen Republic .
Pages in category "Chechen field commanders" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Yet Chechnya mounted a furious defense that culminated in a battle for Grozny, the Chechen capital, that left hundreds of Russian soldiers dead. The humiliated Russian army retreated, and Chechnya ...
(Reuters) - A large group of Russia's former Wagner mercenaries has started training with special forces from the southern Russian region of Chechnya, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Monday.
BEIRUT (AP) -- A young, red-bearded ethnic Chechen has rapidly become one of the most prominent commanders in the breakaway al-Qaida group that has overrun swaths of Iraq and Syria, illustrating ...
Rustam Magomedovich Azhiev (Chechen: Мохмад ВоӀ Рустам, romanized: Moxmad Vo' Rustam) also known by the pseudonym Abdul Hakim al-Shishani (Arabic: عبد الحكيم الشيشاني) is commander-in-chief [2] of the Chechen battalion OBON (part of the Ichkerian armed forces-in-exile) [3] fighting on the Ukrainian side in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
On 3 July 2023, Chechen leader Apta Alaudinov announced that the commander of the Chechen Akhmat Unit, Yevgeny Pisarenko, had been killed whilst fighting on the Donbas frontline. [23] On 21 December 2024, Mediazona reported that at least 296 Russian soldiers from the Chechen republic had been killed in Ukraine since 24 February 2022. [24]