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The war formally ended in 1862 when Russia promised autonomy for Chechnya and other Caucasian ethnic groups. [31] However, Chechnya and the surrounding region, including northern Dagestan, were incorporated into the Russian Empire as the Terek Oblast. Some Chechens have perceived Shamil's surrender as a betrayal, thus creating friction between ...
Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
Russian sources give similar figures of about 40–42 tanks (by one count, 14 of them manned by the Chechen opposition and the rest by Russians [7]), supported from air by six helicopters [7] and six Sukhoi Su-27 air superiority fighters, [11] but give much lower figures of no more than 1,000–1,500 allied Chechen militiamen (including ...
First Chechen War Russia Chechen Republic of Ichkeria: 11 December 1994: 31 August 1996: Russian troops invaded after Chechnya declared independence, but withdrew in 1996 leading to a de facto Chechen independence. 46,500 killed [13] War in Dagestan (1999) Russia: Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan: 7 August 1999: 14 September 1999
The Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty of 1997, also known as the Moscow Peace Treaty, [1] was a formal peace treaty [2] "on peace and the principles of Russian–Chechen relations" following the First Chechen War of 1994–1996.
Russian spy ships have been spotted unannounced at the port of Havana on several occasions, including ahead of Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, days before U.S.-Cuba talks in Havana in 2015 ...
The U.S. has been tracking Russian warships and aircraft that are expected to arrive in the Caribbean for a military exercise in the coming weeks, in a Russian show of force as tensions rise over ...
The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (/ ɪ tʃ ˈ k ɛr i ə / itch-KERR-ee-ə; Chechen: Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, romanized: Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri; Russian: Чеченская Республика Ичкерия, romanized: Chechenskaya Respublika Ichkeriya; abbreviated as "ChRI" or "CRI"), known simply as Ichkeria, and also known as Chechnya, is a former de facto ...