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Wednesday's decision by Moscow to set up "filtration points" and detain every Chechen man between the age of 10 and 60 on the basis that he may be a rebel fighter may be a sign that Russia has already lost this war politically. And it is in the conduct...
Moscow has defined this war as an attempt to weed out a hard core of militant separatist guerrillas from within the wider Chechen population, and destroy it. Russia blames those militants for terrorist attacks in Russia and attempts to foment a separatist rebellion in neighboring Dagestan, as well as for...
"Latest reports suggest the Chechens have used the same strategy as in the last war," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They recognized the superior firepower of the federal forces and retreated all the way to Grozny. But some of their men simply went underground, waiting for the right moment...
The breakout from Grozny, the territory's capital, which Moscow has failed to capture despite the pre-Christmas bravado, infuriated Russia's generals and alarmed the Russian public. The tenor of media reports, which had for the most part been bullish on the war, suddenly began to shift, and Russians...
The falloff in Russian confidence may have been inevitable, since the early successes of the war came in the absence of much Chechen resistance. That allowed Moscow to project the idea of a "clean" war in which Russian casualties are kept to a minimum and the militants are routed by...