National Review8y
The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power
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 ...
Business Insider3y
David Satter claims Russian apartment bombings led to Putin's rise
More than 200 people were killed in the September bombings. Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put ...
The American Conservative11y
Chechen Bombers in Boston
Insofar as the second Chechen war contributed to the Tsarnaevs’ willingness to engage in terrorism, the Boston bombings are a delayed form of blowback from Putin’s war. Obviously, none of that ...
National Review8y
The Bloody Czar
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 National Interest14d
Second Chechen War
Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic and a key loyalist of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, condemned the leadership of Russia’s military in an eleven-minute audio clip posted ...
Human Rights Watch8y
Russia's War in Chechnya: Victims Speak Out
This newsletter describes in the victims' own words the indiscriminate bombing and shelling of ... and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter ...
THE WEEK26d
An unholy war in Chechnya
The enmity goes deep: Over the decades, the Chechens have embraced any enemy of Russia who’d promise help in return, including the Nazis during World War ... bombings in Moscow on Chechen ...
Business Insider India6y
How a series of deadly Russian apartment bombings in 1999 led to Putin's rise to power
More than 200 people were killed in the September bombings. Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put ...
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of bombing its own civilians in Kursk region
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of bombing its "own civilians" who were sheltering in a school in the Kursk region.
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Putin inspects troops with Kadyrov on first Chechnya visit since 2011
As newly-appointed prime minister in 1999, Putin launched the brutal second Chechen war against separatist fighters ... backed by relentless artillery fire and aerial bombing campaigns, killed ...
Human Rights Watch7y
Russia's War in Chechnya: Victims Speak Out
This newsletter describes in the victims' own words the indiscriminate bombing and shelling of ... and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter ...