The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the ...
The apartment bombings changed everything ... Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put in charge ...
The apartment bombings changed everything ... Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put in charge ...
It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya ... fire levelling apartment buildings, entire ...
Vladimir Putin has tried to keep Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region, under Russia's control ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhael Dudadiev, 39, known by his war name Benor, is in the small kitchen of a Soviet-era apartment, preparing Zhizhig Galnash, a traditional Chechen dish made of meat, pasta and garlic sauce. “It ...
In 1999, a series of apartment bombings in Buynaksk ... using the attacks as justification for launching the Second Chechen War, which propelled Vladimir Putin to power. However, investigations ...