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There have been two Chechen Wars:

1991-1994 The First Chechen War occurred when Russian forces attempted to recapture the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya in a two year period lasting from 1994 to 1996. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Second Chechen War is part of an ongoing conflict in the Chechen Republic (Chechnya) and Russia. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...


In September, 1991, militants of Nationally Congress of Chechen People (NCChP) have taken control over Chechnya (they have seized republic's parliament and killed chief of the PCUS of Grozny, Vitali Kutsenko). This was a beginning of nightmare for all non-chechens. Chechens extremists had a right to expel, to rob, to murder non-chechen people. More than 300.000 non-chechens are gone. This refers not only to Russians, but also to Ukrainians, Jews, Tatars, Armenians and other nationalities. The whole Russian population of Naurskoe and Shelkovskoe districts was partly expelled and partly slaughtered. What was 100% Russian settlements like Assinovskaya and Novogroznensk now completely occupied by chechens.


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Second Chechen War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6526 words)
The Chechen state was opposed by both sides of the Russian Civil War and was crushed by Bolshevik troops in 1922.
In 1944 Stalin deported nearly all the Chechens and Ingushs to Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR, and Siberia.
Since the Chechen conflict began in 1994, similar cases have been reported all across Russia: depressed young veterans return embittered and traumatized to their home towns and begin lashing out at those around them; soldiers are psychologically scarred.
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