The insurgency in the North Caucasus was a low-level armed conflict between Russia and militants associated with the Caucasus Emirate and, from June 2015, the Islamic State, in the North Caucasus. It
Top: FSB Spetsnaz members during an operation in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Bottom: Russian president Dmitri Medvedev meets with FSB head Alexander Bortnikov in March 2009 to discuss the ending of the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya.
RIAN archive 835340 Antiterrorist operation in Makhachkala
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The Chechen–Russian conflict was the centuries-long ethnic and political conflict, often armed, between the Russian, Soviet and Imperial Russian governments and various Chechen forces. The recent phas
Insurgency in the North Caucasus
…Insurgency in the North Caucasus Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict, post-Soviet conflicts and the War against the Islamic State (from 2014) Top: FSB Spetsnaz members during an operation in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Bottom…
Chechen artillerymen in 1885
Statue of Aleksey Yermolov in Grozny with one of his quotes in reference to Chechens: "There is no people more vile and insidious under the sun." The statue was reinstated in 1949, four years after the Chechens were ethnically cleansed from their homeland, and it stood until 1989. In modern times Yermolov has been accused of genocide.
A Chechen fighter with a Borz submachine gun, 1995
Akhmad Kadyrov (right), formerly a leading separatist mufti, had switched sides in 2000