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 ...

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 ...

Vakha, in his apartment in Berdychiv ... Born in Grozny, Chechnya, he joined the Chechen resistance during the Second Chechen War. He was barely 16. “The only thing that will ever allow ...

Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...

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 ...

Berdychiv, UKRAINE – 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 ...

placing the blame for apartment bombings on Chechen militants and taking the opportunity to order a large-scale bombing of the region, launching the Second Chechen War. Experts believe the Second ...

A cat walks next to a tank of pro-Russian troops in front of an apartment building ... during the First Chechen Wars in 1994—1996 and then again during the Second Chechen War between 1999 ...

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 ...