Second Chechen War
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The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 to April 2009
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Russian troops on their way to Grozny, 1999
Russian troops firing from
Dmitry Medvedev 27 March 2009 2
Akhmad Kadyrov
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Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was a Russian politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At
Second Chechen War
…prisoner. Soon, the Russian forces seized the last populated centres of the organized resistance. In May 2000, the following month, Putin appointed Akhmad Kadyrov interim head of the pro-Moscow government. This development met with early approval in the rest of Russia, but the continued deaths of Russian troops…
Kadyrov in 2002
Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin at a meeting in 2002
Kadyrov on a 2026 stamp of Russia
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Ramzan Kadyrov at the grave of Akhmat Kadyrov in June 2012