| March 5, 2007 | -
Vladimir Putin installed Ramzan Kadyrov, a 30-year-old reputed warlord and torturer, as president of Chechnya.
| Source:
Moscow Times
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| July 11, 2006 | -
Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev died in an explosion.
| Source:
The L.A. Times
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| October 17, 2005 | - A Chechen warlord took credit for coordinating attacks on the Russian city of Nalchik, claiming that 41 militants and 140 Russian troops were killed in the attack. Russia said that 94 militants, 33 Russian troops, and 12 civilians were killed in the attack.
| Source:
ABC News
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| March 9, 2005 | -
Russian forces assassinated Aslan Maskhadov, the elected, internationally recognized leader of the Chechen movement.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| December 30, 2004 | - and awarded the Hero of Russia medal to Ramzan Kadyrov, a Chechen leader widely accused of kidnapping and torture.
| Source:
New York Ties
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| October 6, 2004 | - Alu Alkhanov was sworn in as president of Chechnya.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 5, 2004 | -
Chechen militants took more than 1,000 children and adults hostage at a school in southern Russia, though the Russian government lied at first and claimed that there were only 354 hostages; at least 338 died, half of whom were children, when security forces stormed the school.
| Source:
Washington Post, Reuters
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| August 30, 2004 | - People in Chechnya apparently elected Vladimir Putin's choice for president, though there was widespread evidence of fraud.
| Source:
Guardian
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| July 7, 2004 | - Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen rebel leader, claimed to be able to fight the Russians for another twenty years if necessary, and he threatened to kill the next president of Chechnya. "Whoever occupies this puppet's chair — his days are numbered."
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 9, 2004 | - President Akhmad Kadyrov of Chechnya was killed along with a dozen more officials in a bomb attack at Dynamo stadium in Grozny, where a celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany was under way.
| Source:
CNN
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| April 16, 2004 | -
Russia said that 605 people were kidnapped in Chechnya last year, and 253 were kidnapped in nearby regions.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 13, 2003 | - A truck bomb in Chechnya killed 41 people.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 8, 2003 | -
The Council of Europe, a human-rights watchdog group, called for an international war crimes tribunal for the war in Chechnya, where a remote-controlled mine blew up a bus and killed eight people heading home from work at a Russian military base.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Human-rights groups said that 51 bodies had been exhumed from a mass grave in Chechnya; many had been tortured; 12 were Chechens last seen in Russian custody.
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