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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 ...
More Russian soldiers died near Pokrovsk in January than in entire Second Chechen War, military says
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 ...
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 ...
This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...
More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...
According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...
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