Russia’s first war in Chechnya was largely--and badly--fought by conscripts. By law, all Russian men are supposed to serve for two years starting at age 18, and in the previous war many found themselves in the war zone before they knew how to fire their rifles. This war was supposed...
Russian Colonel on Trial for Killing Chechen GirlA RUSSIAN army colonel goes on trial today accused of abducting and strangling an 18-year-old Chechen girl, in a rare case brought by the Russian military involving one of its soldiers for crimes against civilians in the war in Chechnya.Cockburn...
Crimes against CiviliansBudanovWar CrimeKungayevaPutinRussiaChechnyaTangi ChuIn the study of war, certain images become symbolic. In Vietnam, it might have been the photo of the young child running naked from a napalm explosion on her village. In the Iraq war, the toppling of Saddam Hussein'...
He stridently criticizes the high-level decision-making and conduct of Russia’s war on Ukraine. He perpetuates the trope about the Russian Army not actually being allowed to wage war. This, despite evidence of tens of thousands of war crimes. Skomorokhov’s biggest question, however, is why...
With its ground forces slowed or stopped by hit-and-run Ukrainian units armed with Western-supplied weapons, Putin's troops are bombarding targets from afar, falling back on the tactics they used in reducing cities to rubble inSyriaand Chechnya. ...
This terrorist attack might not have happened if Russia hadn’t started a war in Chechnya. The hostages might have lived if the security forces had actually tried to save them. But they were killed and twenty years on their sacrifices are still covered in lies and impunity. All of those ...
There have been no large-scale military operations in Chechnya for almost twenty years. However, as it turned out, all this argumentation was completely superfluous, because my gullible colleagues were made to eat their lunch by Putin himself and his favorite propagandist, Margarita Simonyan. As ...
TaggedChechnya,Syria,Ukraine Defender’s Day List Posted onFebruary 18, 2022|1 comment Putin signed out hislistof military promotions yesterday. For the MOD a little unusual, no three-star promotions, just five two-stars, but 26 one-stars. ...
Moscow's strategy in Chechnya and Syria was to use artillery and air bombardments to pulverize cities and crush fighters' resolve. Britain's Defense Ministry said it had seen an increase in Russian air and artillery strikes on populated urban areas over the past two days. It also s...
ignoring all the evidence of wars and mass murders Putin committed in the past two decades – Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine. Russian society may have been proud of Lev Tolstoy’s and Andrei Sakharov’s international fame, but the nation was wiping its arse with their anti-war ...