Ant in a Glass Jar: Chechen Diaries 1994–2004 (Russian: "Муравей в стеклянной банке. Чеченские дневники 1994–2004" is a 2014 documentary book that is...
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Polina Zherebtsova (category Women in the Chechen wars)
ʐɨrʲɪpˈt͡sovə]; 20 March 1985) is a Chechen Russian documentarian, poet and author of the diaries Ant in a Glass Jar, covering her childhood, adolescence...
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Kadyrovites (category Paramilitary organizations based in Russia)
known as the Kadyrovites and the Akhmat special forces unit, is a paramilitary organization in Chechnya, Russia, that serves as the protection of the Head...
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Akhmad Kadyrov (category People murdered in Russia)
1951 – 9 May 2004) was a Russian politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after...
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Dzhokhar Dudayev (category Chechen guerrillas killed in action)
Republic of Ichkeria, from 1991 until his assassination in 1996. Previously he had been a senior officer in the Soviet Air Forces. Dzhokhar and his family, along...
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decided to remain in the country, including Khattab who married a woman from Dagestan. In 1999, foreign fighters played an important role in the War of Dagestan...
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Chechnya. He is a colonel general in the Russian military. Kadyrov is the son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, who switched sides in the Second...
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Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (category Deaths by firearm in Russia)
Republic of Ichkeria. Sadulayev served little more than a full year as President before being killed in a gun battle with FSB and pro-Russian Chechen forces...
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republic of Dagestan on 7 August 1999, in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist rebels. The war ended with a major victory for the Russian Federation...
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Movsar Barayev (category Islamic terrorism in Russia)
theater amid broken glass with an intact bottle of cognac near his hand. Later, the Russian authorities said his body was secretly buried in an undisclosed...
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Second Chechen War (redirect from War in the North Caucasus)
paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from December 1999 until...
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Aslan Maskhadov (category Chechen guerrillas killed in action)
in exile. He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005. On 21 September 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in Karaganda...
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(1999-2009), the Insurgency in Ingushetia (2009–2017), the Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–2017) and the Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus...
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Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (category Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2010)
2004) was a writer and politician from Chechnya, who served as second president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria between 1996 and 1997. In 2004, Yandarbiyev...
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First Chechen War (redirect from War crimes in the First Chechen War)
surprise raids by Chechen guerrillas. The recapture of Grozny in 1996 played a part in the Khasavyurt Accord (ceasefire), and the signing of the 1997...
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Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis (category Terrorist incidents in Russia in 1995)
Теракт в Будённовске, teract [terrorist act] in Budyonnovsk) took place from 14 to 19 June 1995, when a group of Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev...
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Alu Alkhanov (category Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2022)
government in Grozny in 1992. He was later promoted to head the department, a post which he held until 1997. When the First Chechen War broke out in 1994,...
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Akhmed Zakayev (category People sentenced to death in absentia)
as well as in high-level negotiations with the Russian side. In 2002, Russia accused him, by then in exile, of having been involved in a series of crimes...
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Tukhchar massacre (category War in Dagestan (1999))
Russian republic of Dagestan in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist rebels. Several battles ensued following a border clash with Bagautdin Kebedov...
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Khasavyurt Accord (category 1996 in Russia)
in Novye Atagi, included the demilitarisation of Grozny, the withdrawal of both Chechen and Russian forces from the city, and the establishment of a jointly-run...
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Pavel Grachev (section In the Soviet Union)
as Grachov or Grachyov, was a Russian Army General and the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1996; in 1988 he was awarded Hero of...
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Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs (category Islamic terrorism in Russia)
name of a small "martyr" (shahid) force of suicide attackers. Its original leader (amir) was the Chechen separatist commander Shamil Basayev. In February...
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Beslan school siege (redirect from School hostage crisis in Beslan)
deadliest school shooting in history. The crisis began when a group of armed terrorists occupied School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North...
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Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) (category 1999 in Russia)
explosives. (The TOS-1, a multiple rocket launcher with thermobaric weapon warheads, played a particularly prominent role in the assault). These weapons...
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Ibn al-Khattab (category Islamic terrorism in Russia)
Emir Khattab, was a Saudi Arabian pan-Islamic mujahid. Though he fought in many conflicts, he is best known for his involvement in the First Chechen War...
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Rebellion in the North Caucasus The insurgency in the North Caucasus (Russian: Борьба с терроризмом на Северном Кавказе) was a low-level armed conflict...
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Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (category Organizations established in 1998)
Islamist mujahideen organization founded in 1998. IIPB was designated a terrorist entity by the United States in February 2003. The unit was composed of...
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Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev (category Prisoners who died in Russian detention)
Later, he became a Deputy Prime Minister in the government of the Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. In July 1999, while trying to engage in talks with the...
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Kavkaz Center (category Publications established in 1999)
observers to be a disinformation center run with the help of Russia’s special services." The Kavkaz Center caused a major controversy in September 2004...
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Shamil Basayev (category Chechen guerrillas killed in action)
also known by his kunya "Abu Idris", was a Chechen guerilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria...
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