Today marks 20 years since the death of Aslan Maskhadov, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
The Russians found him in a bunker in the flatland village of Tolstoy-Yurt, near Grozny. According to one version, realizing his hopelessness, the president asked his nephew and bodyguard Viskhan […]
6 August – The Victory Day of the Chechen people over the Russian occupiers
6 August 1996, from that historic day when the armed forces of the CRI, having carried out a lightning military operation “Jihad”, literally in a matter of hours, liberated the […]
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Caucasus: the boomerang effect [1999]
The Caucasus has always occupied a special place in Russian history. Starting with Ivan the Terrible (Grozny), the Caucasus Mountains, like a magnet, attracted Russian conquistadors, who in the national tradition were affectionately called “land explorers”. The ethnic groups of the North Caucasus were more and more persistently displaced from the fertile lands to the mountainous regions. It was during this long-term military campaign that the Kuban and Teresian Cossack armies were formed.