In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...
Authorities have not linked Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to any insurgent groups, and the Kremlin-backed strongman who now leads Chechnya says the brothers got their inspiration in the U.S., not the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...
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Which Were Russia's Biggest Military Defeats?
Here we go through a few possible examples of that, such as the Mongol Invasion of 1223, the Livonian War in the Baltic of 1558, the Khivan Campaign of 1717 in Central Asia, the Russo-Japanese War of ...
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Russia’s Bloodiest Urban War
On New Year’s Eve 1994, Grozny became the epicenter of a brutal confrontation as Russian forces entered the city under a silent, wintry sky. What followed was a catastrophic clash that merged military ...
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