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8 unusual facts about Second Chechen War


Åsne Seierstad

Her other books include One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal which describes the three months she spent in Iraq in the build-up to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and most recently Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, an account of the time she spent in Chechnya after the war.

Beslan

 1 was seized by a group of at least thirty-two Islamic terrorists related to the Second Chechen War.

Devil's Game

The consequence of this CIA program is the present-day Islamic Chechen separatist conflict that the Russians are fighting.

Galashki

It was a site of two raids by Chechen separtists during the Second Chechen War, the Galashki ambush in 2000 (from Chechnya) and the Battle of Galashki in 2002 (from Georgia).

International Foundation for Civil Liberties

As part of its campaign to highlight violations of human rights in Chechnya, jointly with Amnesty International and the International Helsinki Federation, IFCL sponsored screening of documentaries on the Chechen War around the world.

John Maples, Baron Maples

When Shadow Foreign Secretary he was caught apparently calling for Britain to help Vladimir Putin in the Second Chechen War.

Muslim Atayev

Muslim Atayev (1974 – January 27, 2004), also known as Emir Sayfullah, was the founder of the Yarmuk Jamaat, which later became part of the Caucasus Front's Kabardino-Balkarian Sector in the Russian-held Caucasian Muslim state Kabardino-Balkaria of the Second Chechen War.

The Diary of Polina Zherebtsova

Zherebtsova wrote the diary when she was 14–17 years old, from the beginning of The Second Chechen War until December 2002.


Chernokozovo

At the beginning of the Second Chechen War, Chernokozovo defended by Chechen separatist forces and the Russians bombed the village and shelled it with the BM-21 Grad rocket artillery systems.

Liza Umarova

Liza then continued to make recordings of the First and Second Chechen Wars, with hit songs such as "Rise Up, Russia!", "Grozny, Hero City", and "Our Time Has Not Yet Come".


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