Earlier this week
...numerous hostages, in towns, in North Caucasus. ''These tactics were used during raids by militant Chechen field commanders Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev against the towns of Buddyonnovsk and Pervomaiskoye. For the first time in history the entire...
...in Russia’s North Caucasus in the 1990s. “The tactics of terrorising entire towns were first used by Chechen field commanders Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev against the towns of Budyonovsk and Pervomaiskoye,” Mr. Safonov told the Interfax news agency....
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...Ingush insurgency, Akhmed Yevloyev (but known as Magas), is a one-time protégé of the infamous late Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. Since a high-profile Basayev-led rebel attack on Nazran -- Ingushetia's largest city -- in 2004, the Ingush...
...working in government institutions of the North Caucasus raised toasts to the freedom of Chechnya in 1996-1998 at feasts where Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov were present. Now these officials are widely hated by the population, with the exception of...
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...whom the authorities agreed to arm, announced that they had succeeded on Aug. 25. August 1999: Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev and Arab warlord Khattab lead 2,000 rebels, many of them Dagestani, from Chechnya into Dagestan, seizing several villages near...
...proximity to Chechnya may be to blame. The violence began in earnest four years ago when the late Chechen warlord, Shamil Basayev, staged a deadly raid on Nazran, killing more than 80 members of the Russian security forces. Since then, it's believed that...
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