Word: chechenization
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...choice of General Mikhailov to lead a group of journalists on a tour of Russian-controlled parts of Chechnya is an intriguing one. In 1996 he was chief spokesman for the Federal Security Service at Pervomayskoye, site of one of Russia's worst humiliations in the 1994-96 Chechen war. A Chechen leader named Salman Raduyev had seized the village, taken hostages and for days beaten back attacks by elite Russian units. Mikhailov was responsible for explaining this mortifying defeat to Russians and to the world. His performance was roundly denounced as inflammatory and wildly inaccurate, and he was fired...
This is a war fought with bombers and artillery, though the dirty, killing work of real combat will probably increase as the Russian troops approach Grozny, the Chechen capital. Reports filtering out of the front lines are filled with talk of shortages of warm clothes, sleeping bags, gloves and socks for the troops, who will have to spend a bitterly cold winter in the open...
...have been looting the place. "They stole my car yesterday," yells one man in the crowd. "The soldiers steal cattle, spare parts. They get drunk at night and shoot up the town. They harass you at checkpoints," says an engineer called Khasam, who now runs a photocopying service.Clean-shaven-- Chechen-Islamic political correctness demands full beards--and defiantly secular in his views, Khasam makes it clear that he is no supporter of the city's former rulers. The gunmen who ran the town before the Russians were no good, he says, but the troops are even worse. His view...
...artillery fire of the current war. Thousands of rockets and shells rained down on the city, according to the Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor of a hospital in Shali, about 16 miles southeast of Grozny, said during a visit to Chechnya...
...Kremlin chief of staff and now head of the energy monopoly RAOEES, drives up to the administrative building. With him are the Russian government's point man for the breakaway republic, Nikolai Koshman, and the mufti of Chechnya, who has recently withdrawn his support from the government of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov...