Police in Chechnya killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev during a special operation on Saturday, authorities said. Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, the press service of Moscow-backed Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said. The city is about 15km east of the provincial capital, Grozny.
Hidden from the world, deep in the endless ruins of the Chechen capital Grozny, a young man smiles at his mother through a cage door. She holds the key, but Iriskhan’s true jailer is the madness he has suffered since the war in his homeland began just over a decade ago. Iriskhan was 18, when Russian troops first laid siege to Grozny, his mother Raisa says.
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/ 1 September 2005
He is Russia’s most wanted man, with tens of thousands of soldiers on his trail, but a year after masterminding the Beslan massacre, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev remains at large, openly mocking the Kremlin. Meanwhile, hundreds of Beslan residents have signed a petition requesting political asylum abroad.
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/ 11 February 2005
An elegant young Chechen, her head bared in defiance of tradition and her feet cosseted in fine shoes, never falters in her animated cellphone conversation even when a Russian armoured car passes her on a Grozny street lined with gutted houses.
Khisha was sitting 10 metres away from President Akhmad Kadyrov when she thought she heard fireworks. ”It was so quiet,” she said, sitting on the bed of her injured daughter, 14, in hospital number nine, Grozny. ”I have heard explosions before all over the city, and this one was so quiet.”
Chechnya’s pro-Russian leader Akhmad Kadyrov was killed on Sunday along with at least 31 others in a bomb attack on a Victory Day celebration in the war-torn capital of the separatist republic. Russia’s top general to the region was reported to have been seriously injured in the blast.
A string of clashes between rebels and pro-Moscow forces in Chechnya have killed at least 24 people, including four civilians, during the past four days, officials and rebels said on Tuesday. The casualties are among the highest recorded recently in the guerrilla war that has simmered between rebels and pro-Russia forces.