Word: ingushetia
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...narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after reportedly entering the area from Georgia. But this particular scene is part of Marsho (Freedom), the first-ever Chechen feature film, shot on a $14,000 budget, with a mixture of Chechen and Georgian actors, a minimum of official permission and the tacit consent of local guerrillas. During last winter...
...filed some of the hardest-hitting stuff out of Chechnya, which had 'displeased' the Russian authorities, to put it mildly. And when I met with him the night before he left for Grozny, he said he believed there was a special FSB [successor organization to the KGB] team in Ingushetia whose mission was to eliminate...
...fierce critic of Moscow's policy, neighboring Ingushetia's President Ruslan Aushev believes Putin is heading toward disaster. Russian generals have learned nothing, he told TIME last week. Troops lack the motivation to fight a long war, and "tanks and artillery solve nothing here." Sure, the massive men and materiel Russia is throwing into the war should eventually prevail--for a time. Moscow has committed 140,000 men to crush the revolt of a Chechen population hovering around 100,000. Sooner or later, Russian troops "will get into Grozny and raise the flag," says Aushev. "But what then...
...Russia's human rights commissioner has compiled a list of 25,000 civilians killed so far in Grozny, the Chechen capital. (The Kremlin has already rejected similar estimates, including one of 20,000 dead by the Russian parliament's defense committee.) Russian forces, meanwhile, began bombarding villages in Ingushetia, one of several border republics that Russia accuses of harboring Chechen rebels...
...soldier see no change in our position and our duty,'' declared the Chechen commander in chief, Colonel Aslan Maskhadov, speaking in Nazran, capital of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. ``Our high command continues to exist. Our volunteers are at their places and are ready to fight on harder than ever. If they think they can insult and enslave the Chechen people, this fighting will go on for years...