Word: chechenization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poll taken by the Moscow-based Echo Moskvy radio station late last month found that 40% of its typically liberal audience believe that Russia's national interests justify any hard line on Georgia. Such jingoism could work as smartly for Putin's as yet unnamed heir-designate as the Chechen war worked for Putin back in 1999 - that's if Putin feels sufficiently emboldened to risk reiterating Moscow's neighborhood supremacy by challenging what he sees as a U.S. proxy on his own turf...
...eastern Moscow Monday morning killed eight instantly, including two children aged four and five. Two more victims died in a hospital, and the death count may yet grow: eleven of 35 wounded are in extremely grave condition. It was a brutal attack, and many Westerners acquainted with the Chechen rebels' tactics over the years might at first simply conclude it was yet another front in the war on terror - a random act of violence perpetrated by Islamic militants bent on inflicting as much carnage as possible on the West, be it George Bush's U.S. or Vladimir Putin's Russia...
KILLED. Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen terrorist who masterminded numerous large-scale attacks on Russian civilians, including a siege of a school in the town of Beslan that killed 331 people, most of them children, and a 2002 attack on a theater in Moscow leaving 171 people dead; when a bomb in his car exploded in the republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya. While Basayev's supporters said the explosion was accidental, Russian forces said they killed Basayev as part of a long-planned sting operation...
...KILLED. Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen terrorist who masterminded numerous large-scale attacks on Russian civilians, including a siege of an elementary school in the town of Beslan that killed more than 330 people, most of them children, and an attack on a theater in Moscow in 2002, in which 172 people died; when a bomb in his car exploded in the republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya. While Basayev's supporters said the explosion was accidental, Russian forces said they killed Basayev as part of a long-planned sting operation...
...Penguin Lost, Viktor returns home when the heat is off and gets involved in high-level Kiev politics. He learns that his penguin has ended up in Chechnya, and heads to the volatile region to save his feathered friend. There, he ends up slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip...