Shamil Basayev
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Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya Abu Idris, was a Chechen guerrilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank
Basayev on the last day of the Budyonnovsk raid on 19 June 1995
Victims of the Beslan school attack
The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists on 23 October 2002, resulting in the taking of
Shamil Basayev
…the Beslan school siege in 2004, and was responsible for numerous attacks on security forces in and around Chechnya. He also masterminded the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, the 2002 Grozny truck bombing, and the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings. He was also one of the leaders of the 2004 Nazran raid. ABC News described…
Russian special forces storm the Dubrovka Theater during the 2002 Moscow hostage crisis.
President Vladimir Putin visiting the Sklifosovsky Emergency Medicine Institute to meet with hostages rescued from the theater in Dubrovka.
Dubrovka theater building (2024)