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Rise of Putin: The second Chechen war

In the aftermath of chaos and collapse following the Soviet Union's fall, Russia stood on the brink. Amid this instability, a ...
Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist... Russian state media ...
Russian forces suffered 7,000 fatalities and 15,000 total casualties, including soldiers wounded and missing in action, on the Pokrovsk front in January. Source: Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia lost more soldiers in the Pokrovsk sector in Ukraine during the month of January than its total losses in the Second ...
Lieut. General Vladimir Shamanov, gesturing at the forward Russian positions near the settlement of Bamut, western Chechnya, in 1999Danilyushin / Tassphoto On the morning of Feb. 4, 2000, four months ...
The Moscow theater siege was a portent of more terrorism to come, warns Rajan Menon, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow specializing in Russia. He argues that the shocking attack shows that ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Two brothers attacked police with knives Monday in Chechnya, killing an officer and injuring another before being shot dead, the Russian republic's leader said. Ramzan Kadyrov, the ...