When he was prime minister in 1999, he blamed a series of deadly apartment bombings in Moscow on Chechen militants and vowed revenge. The subsequent military crackdown in Chechnya was immensely ...
The multinational deal freed two dozen people — including Vadim Krasikov, serving a life sentence in Germany for killing a former Chechen militant in Berlin. Also in August, Ukraine launched a ...
Fears of terrorism have been high in the Russian capital since last October's seizure of a Moscow theatre by scores of Chechen militants, including women strapped with explosives and detonators.