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30 years since start of First Chechen War, Kadyrov's Chechnya remains one of the most brutal places on Earth
In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two ...
THE WEEK11d
An unholy war in Chechnya
What do the Chechens want? Unlike Osama bin Laden and al Qaida, the Chechens are not fighting to establish a world Islamic state. They’re fighting for a state, period. Chechens are Muslims, but ...
The Sun27d
Inside bizarre Russian fiefdom Chechnya run by Putin’s ‘war dog’ where jet was blasted by trigger-happy cosplay soldiers
But the gun-touting foot soldiers were later seen parading around in their uniforms and ... The former separatist rebel fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War, only to change ...
Amnesty UK2y
Russia: Lawyer’s Mother Detained In Chechnya
On 20 January, Zarema Musaeva, mother of a human rights lawyer from Chechnya (North Caucasus), was abducted from her apartment in Nizhnii Novgorod (Central Russia) by at least seven men. They spoke ...
Al Bawaba News20d
Heavy Fighting in Chechnya
In addition, five Russian soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in attacks and land mine explosions throughout Chechnya. Chechen rebel sources reported fighting was still raging around Tsatsan ...