This article details the incidents of guerilla warfare and counter insurgency in and around the republic of Chechnya since the official end of the main Russian offensive in April 2000. Combatants Russian Federation Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Strength At least 93,000 in Chechnya in 1999 About 30,000 in Chechnya in 2007 (mostly MVD) 10,000 to 20,000 in 1999 (including private militias) 700 in Chechnya in 2007 (Russian est. ... Combatants Russian Army Chechen rebels Strength 22 N/A Casualties 18 killed, 3 wounded N/A Galashki ambush was the first combat incident in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia linked to the Second Chechen War. ... Zachistka in Alkhan-Kala was a week-long (starting on June 25, 2001) cleansing operation by the Russian special forces in Chechnya killed Arbi Barayev, a Chechen insurgent commander and notorious organized crime leader, in the village of Alkhan-Kala near Grozny. ... Combatants Russia Ichkeria Commanders N/A Shamil Basayev The 2001 battle for Vedeno was a struggle between Russian federal and Chechen separatist forces for the control of Vedensky District in the Chechnyas mountains. ... Combatants Chechen OMON Chechen separatists Casualties 21 killed, 7 wounded At least 1 wounded Grozny OMON ambush was the April 18, 2002 attack in which the Chechen insurgents killed about 21 and wounded seven republican OMON special police officers. ... On August 19, 2002, a Russian-made Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile hit an overloaded Mi-26 helicopter, causing it to crash in a minefield and burn down at the main military base at Khankala near the capital city of Grozny, Chechnya. ... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen Republic Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Casualties 12 killed and 4 wounded None Urus-Martan ambush was a double attack by the Chechen separatists which killed 12 Russian soldiers and Chechen policemen and wounded four others. ... Combatants Russian Federation Caucasus Front Commanders Abukar Kostoyev † Zyaudin Kotiyev † Shamil Basayev Magomet Yevloyev Doku Umarov Strength N/A 50-600 (probably more than 200) Casualties At least 60 killed At least 6 killed Nazran raid was carried out a large-scale raid on Republic of Ingushetia, Russian Federation, on... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen separatists Commanders N/A Suleiman Elmurzayev Strength N/A 25 to 150 (possibly 60-70) Casualties At least 18 killed and 12+ wounded, 12 captured At least 5 killed and 7 wounded, 2 missing Avtury raid was a Chechen rebel attack on the village of Avtury... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen separatists Strength N/A 250-400 Casualties At least 63 killed At least 1 killed and 3 captured 2004 raid on Grozny was a series of overnight attacks in central Grozny, capital of Chechnya which killed at least 58 members of security forces, five federal soldiers... Combatants GRU Spetsnaz Chechen separatists Commanders Abu Hafs al-Urduni, Isa Muskiev Casualties 7-20 killed and 25-30 wounded Allegedly none Grozny OMON ambush was the July 4, 2005 attack by the Chechen rebel fighters armed with assault rifles, grenade launchers and rocket propelled grenades on a motorized column... Combatants Alpha Group, SOBR, OMON, Russian Marines Dagestani insurgents Commanders Arzulum Ilyasov † Magomedzagir Akayev † Rasul Makasharipov † Strength 8 Casualties 4 killed and 1 wounded 6 killed, 1 wounded and captured January 15 2005 sieges were two raids of the Russian security forces on a rebel safehouses in Dagestan. ... Makhachkala Rus bombing was a July 1, 2005 incident in which at least 11 members of the elite Russian Rus battalion were killed and 25 people wounded in the bomb attack outside a public bath in Makhachkala, Dagestan. ... Combatants Russian security forces Mostly local Islamic militants Commanders N/A Ilias Gorchkhanov (killed) Strength several thousand 80 - 300 Casualties at least 33 at least 41 The October 2005 Nalchik attack was a raid by a large group of militants on Nalchik, in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic of southern Russia... Combatants Russia Islamic rebels Commanders Adilgerei Magomedtagirov Strength Some 3,000 Up to 8 to 30 Casualties 3 killed and 10+ wounded Possibly some wounded Gimry fighting took place between January 2-January 5, 2006 near Gimry in Dagestan. ... Combatants Mordovian OMON Chechen rebels Casualties 7 killed, 1 wounded N/A Dair ambush was a small-scale attack by the Chechen separatists which killed at least seven Mordovian OMON special policemen in a road ambush near the village of Dair in southern Chechnya. ... Combatants Russian military Chechen rebels Commanders N/A Ramzan Saluyev Strength N/A At least 8 to over 100 Casualties At least 25 to 50-80 killed At least 2-3 killed On April 27, 2007 a Russian military Mi-8 helicopter with special forces was downed by small arms... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ... In the context of an occupation or a civil war, counter-insurgency (abbreviated COIN) is a military term for the combat against a political rebellion, termed an insurgency, by forces aligned with the standing government of the territory in which the combat takes place. ... Chechen Republic (IPA: ; Russian: , Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: , Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (; Russian: ; Chechen: , Noxçiyçö), sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ...

2000

• May 4 - The Russian military command said special forces troops have ambushed a column of Chechen insurgents near the southern village of Avtury, killing at least 18 of them; casualty figures were impossible to confirm independently. The command said the Russians opened fire with machine guns and then called-up artillery strikes in the ambush. Meanwhile, the rebels also claimed to have killed 12 Russian federal soldiers in attacks in the areas of Urus-Martan, Shelkovskaya and Shatoy.

• May 11 - Eighteen Russian army soldiers were killed and three wounded in an automatic weapons attack on a convoy near the village of Galashki in Ingushetia.

• May 31 - Sergei Zveryev, Russia's second highest-ranking official in Chechnya, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Grozny. The city Mayor Supyan Makhchayev, who was with Zveryev, was injured in the bombing, while his assistant was killed. [1]

• July 2-July 3 - Chechen insurgents launched five suicide bomb attacks into Russian military and police headquarters and barracks within 24 hours. In the deadliest, at least 26 police troops were killed and 81 wounded at OMON dormitory in Argun. The Russian Interior Ministry for Chechnya based in Gudermes is targeted twice killing at least six troops. Following one of the bombings a firefight broke out between Chechen guerillas and soldiers, killing three soldiers and an unknown number of militants. [2]

• June 6 - Russian police and special forces units have begun an operation aimed at flushing an estimated 500 insurgents in the capital Grozny. Meanwhile, Ilyas Akhmadov, Chechnya's unrecognised foreign minister, told reporters in Washington that the separatists want to end what he called "this useless war" with Russia. The commander of VDV Georgy Shpak responded with a statement that the estimated 2,500 active insurgent fighters, who every once in a while are presented an offer to capitulate with promises of an amnesty, should be "exterminated" at any cost.

• July 2 - Nine Russian soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in a landmine explosion near Chechnya's village of Avtury, Russian presidential aide on Chechnya Sergey Yastrzhembsky told reporters. He also denied reports by some media that about 40 federal soldiers were killed in the continuous battle near Serzhen-Yurt, saying the federal force has lost only 13 people with 18 wounded over the five-day fighting.

• August 7 - The Russian government announced the defection of Ibragim Khultygov, a former counter-intelligence chief for the separatist government in Chechnya.

• October 12 - A powerful car bomb went off outside Oktyabrsky city district police station in the capital Grozny, killing at least 15, including prosecutors, and wounding 22 people. It appeared to have been timed to go off when a car carrying prosecutors drove up.

• October 25 - Insurgents staged dozens of attacks in Chechnya, killing at least 13 Russian soldiers and wounding 24, an official said. In three separate attacks using mines - one in Grozny and two in smaller towns - insurgents laid in wait until the military vehicles were incapacitated by the blasts, then opened fire on survivors. [3]

• October 29 - A bomb blast in a cafe in Chechnya killed at least 14 people, including at least seven Russian soldiers. The explosion which took place in the village of Chiri-Yurt, 18 miles from Grozny. [4]

• November 11 - Russian general Gennady Troshev told a television audience that 31 Russian troops were killed in recent clashes with the rebels. Troshev said the fighting was in the Argun gorge south of Grozny, and that the Russian soldiers were badly outnumbered when attacked by 1,000 Chechen fighters. An earlier Chechen ambush killed another 20 Russian soldiers. [5]

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2001

• January 27 - Six Russian servicemen have died and 13 have been wounded in fighting in Chechnya. The deaths come just days after Russia announced it would reduce its vast military deployment in Chechnya. [6]

• April 25 - At least six Russian policemen were killed and five others wounded when a time bomb ripped through a police building in a Chechen town of Gudermes. The police station housed an Interior Ministry unit fighting organized crime.

• April 30 - Eleven Russian soldiers killed and 18 wounded in the weekend attacks. [7]

• May 4 - Two Russian soldiers and nine Chechen fighters were reported killed in fighting, while the bodies of five Russian civilians were found in the capital Grozny, government military sources said.

• May 7 - Chechen fighters attacked a Russian military column which was going to carry out a mopping up operation in Argun, leaving at least 15 Russian soldiers dead. The heavy fighting in and around the town, during which Russian artillery and military helicopters were used, ended on the next day.

• June 25 - Russian special forces killed Arbi Barayev, a Chechen insurgent commander and notorious organized crime leader, in a week-long cleansing operation in Alkhan-Kala, near Grozny.

• July 20 - A Interior Ministry helicopter explodes near Engenoi, killing nine MVD commandos and wounding five. [8]

• August 11 - Six Russian police have been killed and nine injured in Chechnya by in the blast of remote-controlled bomb detonated under their armoured vehicle. Eleven other soldiers were wounded during a gun battle in the Vedeno region south-east of Grozny after a convoy came under fire, and military said three of the attackers were killed. [9]

• August 13 - A large force of insurgents attacked the Vedeno region. The fighting, reportedly heaviest since 2000, continued for at least several days. There were reports of a shot down Russian helicopters and the use of SCUD missiles, as well as wounding of Shamil Basayev.

• August 29 - Insurgents in the village of Oktyabrskoye in Kurchaloyevsky District (eastern Chechnya) killed 12 people in and around a Russian military convoy, reportedly including civilians; the Interfax news agency reported the attack began when a car bomb was detonated as a convoy passed by an outdoor market.

• September 20 - Seven policemen, including local police chief, were killed during an attack between villages Kurchaloy and Mayrtup.

• October 16 - Four soldiers killed by IED in Grozny, another three in a convoy ambush in the southern Shalinsky District and at least two in attacks on the Russian outposts across the republic. In retaliation, Russian aircraft attacked suspected insurgent camps in the mountains and launched a search for suspected militants in several southern villages.

• October 17 - A surface-to-air missile shot down a VIP Mi-8 helicopter over Grozny, killing Major-General Anatoli Pozdnyakov, member of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major-General Pavel Varfolomeyev, deputy director of staff of the Defence Ministry of Russia, eight colonels, and three crewmembers.

• September 17 - Chechen insurgents carried out large coordinated attacks in towns of Gudermes and Argun, in Nozhay-Yurtovsky District, involving between 100 and 400 fighters. At the time of the attacks Gudermes had been functioning as a de facto capital of Chechnya.

• December 30 - A four-day battle and cleansing operation in the large village of Tsotsin-Yurt, south of Grozny, reportedly results in dozens of deaths among combatants and civilians; 11 local vanish after being detained.

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2002

• January 17 - More than 30 Russian servicemen reportedly died in separate attacks on troop columns in Vedeno and Urus-Martan. [10]

• January 27 - A Russian Interior Ministry Mi-8 was shot down in Nadterechny District, killing 11 people including crew. Among those killed in the crash were Russian deputy Interior Minister, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Rudchenko responsible for security in the Southern Federal District, and Major-General Nikolai Goridov, deputy commander of the Internal Troops, as well as several other high-ranking officers including colonels Oriyenko, Stepanenko, and Trafimov. [11]

• March 19 - One of the leaders of the radical wing of the Chechen resistance and the influential Arab volunteer, Ibn al-Khattab, was killed by a poisoned letter in an operation by the Federal Security Service (FSB).

• April 6 - Five Russian soldiers have been killed in Chechnya when their armoured vehicle detonated a mine outside Grozny.

• April 14 - Russia forces have launched a major operation in southern Chechnya involving aircraft and heavy guns against the Vedensky District after the Chechen guerrillas claimed the lives of nine Russian servicemen in explosions and hit-and-run tactics attacks over 24 hours.

• April 17 - Eleven Russian servicemen were killed and 13 wounded in two attacks in the southern Shatoysky District

• April 18 - Insurgents killed 21 and wounded seven Chechen OMON officers in the attack on a convoy in Grozny.

• August 6 - Eleven local policemen were killed and seven badly wounded when a land mine exploded under a military truck that was transporting 33 servicemen back to their barracks in Shatoy. The explosion was so strong that it threw the truck 15 metres away and flipped it over.

• August 19 - An overloaded Mi-26 transport helicopter was hit by an Igla missile and crashed into a mine field, killing some 127 soldiers aboard, the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation. The Russian military command said that federal forces have killed 39 Chechen fighters in the past two days; the report could not be independently confirmed.

• July 8 - Two soldiers and six police officers were killed in clashes with Chechen rebels, while the Russian troops detained 90 people for questioning over suspected ties to insurgents. [12]

• October 10 - A bomb attack on a Grozny police station killing 22 Chechen policemen, including many senior officers, and wounding nine. It is suspected that one of the policemen was responsible for planting the bomb, which went off during the conference of Grozny police commanders; 40 officers were reportedly attending the meeting.

• October 29 - A Mi-8 shot down by the rebels explodes during attempted emergency landing, killing all four people on board. [13]

• September 15 - Twelve Russian servicemen and one rebel killed in several attacks, more than 100 suspected rebels were detained in security sweeps. [14]

• September 24 - Ruslan Gelayev's forces raided into Ingushetia, capturing the villages of Tarskoe and then Galashki. Gelayev's 150 fighters, including 30 Kabardinians and Balkars, became surrounded, took large losses and were dispersed. At least 21 Russian servicemen, including two Mi-24 pilots, and as many as 40 rebels were reported killed in clashes by the Russian officials.

• November 3 - Rebels shoot down a Mi-8 helicopter with a portable ground-to-air missile near Grozny, killing nine servicemen.

• November 15 - An official in the Chechen administration said that 12 federal service personel and allied Chechen militia soldiers were killed.

• November 16 - Lieutenant-General Igor Shifrin, head of the Army's Glavspetzstroi (Main Directorate of Special Construction), was killed in ambush in Grozny when his and another vehicle came under intense fire from automatic weapons. Two policemen were killed and two more were wounded, while unspecified number of Chechen gunmen were reported killed in the firefight and at least 220 people were detained by Russian forces. [15]

• December 27 - Chechen suicide bombers ran vehicles into the heavily guarded republic's government headquarters in Grozny; 72 people are killed and 210 injured in the blast.

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The Balkar (малкъар /malqar/balqar) people are a Turkic people of the Caucasus region, the titular population of Kabardino-Balkaria. ... The Mil Mi-24 is a large combat helicopter gunship and low-capacity troop transport operated from 1976 by the Soviet Air Force, its successors, and over thirty other nations. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... M2 machine gun An automatic firearm is a firearm that will continue to load and fire rounds of ammunition as long as the trigger (or equivalent) is activated or until it runs out of ammunition. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ...

2003

• January 9 - Fifteen Russian soldiers and police officers and two insurgents were killed in the fighting, including nine Russian soldiers who died when their convoy came under fire in Grozny.

• March 1 - Insurgents attacked the motorcade of Chechnya's pro-Moscow leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, killing his four bodyguards and three policemen.

• April 21 - Chechen insurgents opened fire on Russian troops in several clashes, killing seven soldiers and wounding seven others. [16]

• March 5 - The Chechen OMON commander Dzhabrail Yamadayev was killed in his own house in the village of Dyshne-Vedeno by a bomb planted under a couch that he slept on.

• May 12 - Suicide bombers drive a truck bomb into a government administration and security complex in Znamenskoye in northern Chechnya, killing about 50 and injuring 400, including civilians. The blast destroys the republican HQ of the FSB.

• August 1 - A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives blew up a military hospital in the town of Mozdok in North Ossetia, bordering Chechnya. The blast killed at least 50.

• August 22 - Nine Russian soldiers were killed and two wounded by a remote-controlled car bomb, which went off as a column of military vehicles drove by. The bomb blew up as a column of military vehicles drove by, fully destroying a Zil-131 truck. [17]

• June 1 - Five Russian soldiers dead and 11 others wounded in a rebel ambush in Ingushetia and other attacks. [18]

• June 5 - A female suicide bomber ambushed a bus carrying Russian Air Force pilots in North Ossetia, blowing it up and killing herself and 19 other people and injuring 14.

• June 25 - Eight Russian soldiers and one police officer have been killed in clashes with Chechen guerrillas, who themselves lost two men. Russian air attacks struck suspected insurgent camps in the southern Vedeno district, and artillery pounded the Vedeno, Itum-Kale and Kurchaloy districts. [19]

• July 08 - Chechen rebels kill at least 10 Russian servicemen, including three in a shot-down a Mi-8 military helicopter, while federal forces shelled several regions and detained at least 150 people in a series of sweeps throughout the republic. [20]

• July 12 - Insurgents in southern Chechnya staged several hit-and-run attacks against federal positions, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 13. Nine of them were killed in a heavy KamAZ truck at the head of a convoy returning to base in the Shatoy region, when it hit a remote-controlled land mine and was attacked with small arms and grenades.

• July 21 - Six Russian soldiers were killed and eight wounded in an overnight clash with separatist fighters near the village of Dyshne-Vedeno; the Russian military said six Chechen fighters were also killed in the gunfight. [21]

• November 3 - Nine Russian soldiers were killed and 16 wounded by attacks and mines laid by Chechen separatists. The Russian military responded by pounding the southern Vedeno district from the air and shelling suspected separatist bases, and detained at least 180 people on suspicion of aiding the separatists.

• November 23 - Seventeen militants were killed by a Russian special forces in a raid on a base near the Chechen village of Serzhen-Yurt. The Kremlin later displayed passports belonging to an Algerian, three Turks and Thomas Fischer, a German, who were among the dead.

• December 14 - Nine Russian border guards are killed in a raid by 25-30 Chechen fighters on Dagestan. [22]

January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2007)    - Density 10,469,000   9684. ... Akhmat Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (Russian: Ахмат Абдулхамидович Кадыров (August 23, 1951 – May 9, 2004) was the president of the Chechen Republic (elected on October 5, 2003). ... Bodyguards of Viktor Yushchenko (far left) after leaving Gdansk city hall. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (65th in leap years). ... Dzhabrail Yamadayev was a former Chechen rebel field commander and then the commander of Chechen Spetznaz unit. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (133rd in leap years). ... Znamenskoye (Russian: ) is a village located in Nadterechny District in the northern portion of the Chechen Republic, Russia. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... A casualty is a victim of an accident, injury or trauma. ... Map of North Ossetia, Russia Mozdok (Russian: Моздо́к, Ossetian Мæздæг) is a town in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in southern Russia. ... The Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (Russian: Респу́блика Се́верная Осе́тия-Ала́ния; Ossetic: Цæгат Иры&#1089... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... A Finnish Army Zil 131, nicknamed Zilton or Ankka (Duck), towing 155 mm heavy cannon in vernal forest The ZIL-131 is a general purpose 3. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... Though the majority of suicide bombers were and are male, female suicide bombers have carried out a number of attacks since 1985. ... The Russian Air Force (Russian: Военно-воздушные cилы России, transliteration: Voyenno-vozdushnye sily Rossii) is the air force of Russia. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... Kamaz (Камский автомобильный завод - Камаз / Kamskiy avtomobilny zavod - Kama Automobile Zavod - Kamaz or KAMA Heavy-Duty Truck Production Plant) is a Tatar truck manufacturer located in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russian Federation. ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... A raid is a brief attack, normally performed by a small military force of commandos, or by irregulars. ... For other Types of Travel Document, see Travel Document. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

2004

• February 28 - Ruslan Gelayev and two Russian border guards kill each other on the Russian-Georgian border.

• March 26 - A military truck drove out of a Russian military base in Shali after curfew and hit a minefield planted outside to deter a guerrilla attack, killing 10 soldiers. It was later discovered that the truck was driven by a military officer without permission. In addition, separate other incidents claimed the lives of 11 soldiers and policemen.

• April 13 - Eleven Russian soldiers killed and 15 wounded in Chechnya, including five killed in a shelled convoy near Shali. [23]

• April 15 - Ten Russian soldiers died and five were wounded in attacks throughout Chechnya, while over 200 people were detained in a security sweeps for suspected insurgents and accomplices. [24]

• April 16 - Saudi-born Abu al-Walid, successor to Ibn al-Khattab, was killed in the mountains by a Russian aerial bombing.

• May 9 - An explosion on the VIP seating at a "Dinamo" soccer stadium during a mid-morning Soviet Victory Day parade in the Grozny kills pro-Russian President Akhmad Kadyrov and more than dozen others. Some 56 others were wounded, including Colonel-General Valery Baranov, the chief commander of Russian forces in Chechnya.

• May 18 - Chechen separatists killed 12 Russian soldiers and policemen and wounded four others in a double ambush near the city of Urus-Martan. [25]

• June 4 - Four contract soldiers killed and five wounded, including a senior officer, in the attack against army headquarters convoy in Itum-Kale. [26]

• June 8 - Officials in Chechnya said today that at least 10 Russian servicemen and eight insurgents have died in several clashes. Simultaneously, 200 people were detained on suspicion of aiding the rebels.

• June 21 - Chechen guerillas led the raid on the Russian republic of Ingushetia, killing at least 60 members of the local security agencies, including the republic's acting Interior Minister, and looting and burning down the Ingush Interior Ministry and several other government buildings.

• July 13 - Guerillas entered and shortly seized the village of Avtury, killing at least 18 and capturing 12 members of pro-Moscow Chechen militia.

• August 12 - Eight Russian soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in separate attacks. [27]

• August 22 - Overnight attacks in central Grozny killed some 58 members of security forces, five federal soldiers, at least one insurgent, and more than a dozen civilians.

• November 8 - Chechnya's administration said Russian troops killed at least 18 separatist fighters in Vedensky District. Chechen rebel death toll was one of the highest reported by the pro-Moscow authorities in months. [28]

February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). ... A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by and/or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations. ... Shali (Russian: ) is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia. ... A landmine is a type of mine which is placed onto or into the ground and explodes when triggered by a vehicle or person. ... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Abu al-Walid (ابو الواليد) (born Saudi Arabia, date unknown, died April 16, 2004), also known as Amir al-Walid, was an Arab Mujahid and commander in both Chechen Wars. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (130th in leap years). ... The Olympia Stadium: start and finish lines visible, defining the length of one stadium (in this case 192. ... May 9, Soviet poster based on the famous photo of the Soviet flag being raised over the Reichstag in 1945. ... United States Marines on parade. ... Akhmat Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (Russian: Ахмат Абдулхамидович Кадыров (August 23, 1951 – May 9, 2004) was the president of the Chechen Republic (elected on October 5, 2003). ... Colonel General is a senior military rank which is used in some of the world’s militaries. ... Valery Baranov is a Russian Colonel General and former commander of Joint Group of Forces in the Chechen Republic during the Second Chechen War. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (139th in leap years). ... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen Republic Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Casualties 12 killed and 4 wounded None Urus-Martan ambush was a double attack by the Chechen separatists which killed 12 Russian soldiers and Chechen policemen and wounded four others. ... Urus-Martan(Chechen: Halha-Marta) is the third town of Chechen Republic, located on the river Martan (Chechen: Marta). ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... Headquarters (HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Combatants Russian Federation Caucasus Front Commanders Abukar Kostoyev † Zyaudin Kotiyev † Shamil Basayev Magomet Yevloyev Doku Umarov Strength N/A 50-600 (probably more than 200) Casualties At least 60 killed At least 6 killed Nazran raid was carried out a large-scale raid on Republic of Ingushetia, Russian Federation, on... The Interior Minister is a member of a Cabinet in a Government. ... July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen separatists Commanders N/A Suleiman Elmurzayev Strength N/A 25 to 150 (possibly 60-70) Casualties At least 18 killed and 12+ wounded, 12 captured At least 5 killed and 7 wounded, 2 missing Avtury raid was a Chechen rebel attack on the village of Avtury... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen separatists Strength N/A 250-400 Casualties At least 63 killed At least 1 killed and 3 captured 2004 raid on Grozny was a series of overnight attacks in central Grozny, capital of Chechnya which killed at least 58 members of security forces, five federal soldiers... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Chechnya map, Vedensky District is numbered 13 Vedensky District (Russian: ) is a raion (district) of the Chechen Republic, Russia. ...

2005

• January 2 - A three-day battle on a mountain near Gimry in Dagestan between some 3,000 Russian troops and a group of estimated eight armed rebels leaves three Russians dead and more than 10 wounded.

• January 5 - An official with the Chechen administration reported that 14 Russian soldiers and three local Chechen troops have been killed in a series of incidents in Chechnya over the last two days. At least 15 troops were reported wounded. [29]

• January 8 - Four rebels killed in a destroyed building in Nazran, Ingushetia. [30]

• January 15 - Four Russian commandos and six rebels dead in two clashes in Dagestan.

• January 29 - A Russian report says nine servicemen have been killed by landmine explosions near the village of Alkhan-Yurt. ITAR-TASS quoted a police source as saying the Chechen Interior Ministry soldiers were traveling on the Caucasus federal highway, when their two vehicles were hit by landmines detonated by remote control.

• February 2 - Major-General Magomed Omarov, Dagestan's deputy Interior Minister, was assassinated in capital Makhachkala, when rebels ambushed his motorcade and killed him in the shoot-out.

• February 19 - A spokesman for the Russian Army said Yunadi Turchaev, the alleged amir of Grozny responsible for operations in and around the Chechen capital, and an unspecified number of his men were killed in a shootout in Grozny.

• February 21 - Nine Russian recon soldiers were killed in a blast in the village of Prigorodnoye on the outskirts of Grozny. While official sources attributed the incident to a battle with Chechen guerrillas, who at the time announced an unilateral ceasefire, Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta wrote that some of the soldiers were drunk and one of them fired a grenade launcher in an abandoned factory.

• March 8 - Chechen separatist President Aslan Maskhadov killed and several of his associates captured in Tolstoy-Yurt.

• March 10 - A FSB MI-8 helicopter is brought down by gunfire killing at least dozen OSNAZ and FSB servicemen.

• March 14 - Kantash Mansarov, imam of the militant Jamaat group in Grozny who was the alleged coordinator of undercover operations in the capital since the death of Turchaev, was reported killed while resisting arrest.

• March 23 - Chechen field commander Rizvan Chitigov was killed by Chechen police forces in Shalinsky District. On the same day, police Lieutenant-Colonel Movsredin Kantayev, the head of an operational-investigative bureau of the Russian Interior Ministry, was found dead with gunshot wounds near the village of Petropavlovskaya near Grozny.

• May 15 - During a raid in a suburb of Grozny, Russian forces killed four militants, including Vakha Arsanov, former vice president of the Ichkerian government. Also on same day, the Chechen guerilla commander Danilbek Eskiyev was killed in the village of Gerzel in Gudermessky District.

• May 17 - Senior insurgent leader Alash Daudov and three associates were killed by the OSNAZ FSB in Grozny. On the same day the Special Forces also announced the killing of Rasul Tambulatov, militant commander for Chechnya's Shelkovsky District, and the capture of five of his associates who they said were bomb specialists.

• April 15 - A fierce skirmish took place between Chechen guerrillas and Russian elite forces in Grozny's Leninsky city district. Reportedly six Chechen fighters from Doku Umarov's group and five OSNAZ soldiers were killed. There were some civilian casualties. [31]

• July 1 - Eleven members of the elite Russian MVD OSNAZ Rus battalion were killed and seven wounded in the bomb attack in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

• July 12 - The main Dagestani rebel group confirmed the death of its commander, Rasul Makasharipov. [32]

• July 16 - A Mi-8 helicopter crashes in the highland Chechnya, killing eight.

• July 19 - Eleven policemen, a local FSB agent and three civilians were killed when a booby-trapped police vehicle was blown up in the northwestern Chechen village of Znamenskoye. Nearly thirty others were injured. The initial firefight was designed to draw more policemen to the scene and maximise casualties with an explosion.

• August 7 - Chechnya's administration said today that nine Russian soldiers were killed and nine more wounded in weekend clashes. [33]

• August 14 - Colonel Aleksandr Kayak, the commander of the Urus-Martan area, and four other soldiers were killed in a land mine explosion, when Russian troops came to the aid of a local official whose home was under attack. [34]

• August 26 - Dagestani Prime Minister Ibragim Malsagov was wounded in a double bomb attack on his motorcade in Nazran which killed his driver.

• October 13 - Large group of mostly-local militants attack Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkar Republic. More than 100 people, including at least 12 civilians, were reported to have been killed and many were wounded.

• September 15 - A gun battle between police and Chechen separatists barricaded in a building in Argun led to the deaths of five Russian and Chechen police officers and five Chechen insurgents, while three other servicemen were killed in separate attacks. [35]

• September 19 - Akhmed Avtorkhanov, former head of security for Ichkerian President Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in Chechnya. On the same day, seven Russian soldiers died fighting militants near the village of Bugovroi and two other soldiers died during in attacks on federal positions. [36]

• September 24 - Six Russian soldiers were killed and 11 others wounded in Chechnya in the past 24 hours; body of Chechen policeman was found in Minutka Square in Grozny. [37]

January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Russia Islamic rebels Commanders Adilgerei Magomedtagirov Strength Some 3,000 Up to 8 to 30 Casualties 3 killed and 10+ wounded Possibly some wounded Gimry fighting took place between January 2-January 5, 2006 near Gimry in Dagestan. ... Gimri is a small village in the mountains of Dagestan, a republic within the Russian federation. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Alpha Group, SOBR, OMON, Russian Marines Dagestani insurgents Commanders Arzulum Ilyasov † Magomedzagir Akayev † Rasul Makasharipov † Strength 8 Casualties 4 killed and 1 wounded 6 killed, 1 wounded and captured January 15 2005 sieges were two raids of the Russian security forces on a rebel safehouses in Dagestan. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... ITAR-TASS (ИТАР-ТАСС), Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, is the major news agency of the Russian Federation. ... Highway in Pennsylvania, USA The Pan-American Highway, in the Peruvian town of Máncora, where it serves as the main street. ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Magomed Omarov (died February 2, 2005) was the deputy Interior Minister for the Russian republic of Dagestan. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Emir (also sometimes rendered as Amir or Ameer, Arabic commander) is a title of nobility historically used in Islamic nations of the Middle East and North Africa. ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up recon, Recon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Novaya Gazeta is a Russian newspaper. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in leap years). ... Aslan Maskhadov Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov (Russian: Аслан Алиевич Масхадов) (September 21, 1951 – March 8, 2005) was a leader of the separatist movement in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (70th in leap years). ... For the Lebanese political coalition, see March 14 Alliance. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (83rd in leap years). ... Rizvan Chitigov was a Chechen rebel field commander. ... Shalinsky disctrict (Шалинский) (also known as Shali district) is an administrative district of the Chechen Republic. ... 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Chechnya map Gudermessky District (Russian: ), also known as Gudermes District (number five on the map) is a raion (district) of the Chechen Republic, Russia. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... A member of the OSNAZ MVD Rus team. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... A member of the OSNAZ MVD Rus team. ... Symbol of the Austrian 14th Armoured Battalion in NATO military graphic symbols A battalion is a military unit usually consisting of between two and six companies and typically commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel. ... Makhachkala Rus bombing was a July 1, 2005 incident in which at least 11 members of the elite Russian Rus battalion were killed and 25 people wounded in the bomb attack outside a public bath in Makhachkala, Dagestan. ... 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Combatants Local and federal security forces Mostly local Islamic militants Commanders Ilias Gorchkhanov † Shamil Basayev Anzor Astemirov Musa Mukozhev Strength N/A (thousands) 150-300 (possibly 217) Casualties At least 35 killed At least 37 killed[1] The October 2005 Nalchik attack was a raid by a large group of... Coat of arms of Nalchik Nalchik (Karachay-Balkar and Russian: ; Kabardian: Налшык) is a city in the Caucasus region of southern Russia and capital of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic. ... Capital Nalchik Area - total - % water Ranked 83rd - 12,500 km² - negligible Population - Total - Density Ranked 60th - est. ... In times of armed conflict a civilian is any person who is not a combatant. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... Closeup of a collection of blinker equipped barricades A barricade is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction. ... 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2006

• January 30 - Clashes between Russian federal forces and Chechen separatists left five Russian soldiers dead and 10 wounded. There were no figures for losses among the insurgents. [38]

• February 8 - At least 13 Army special forces troops were killed and 22 injured in explosion at Russian military barracks in Chechnya.

• March 28 - Negotiated surrender of warlord Sultan Geliskhanov.

• May 17 - A military special forces convoy came under intensive small arms fire on the outskirts of the village of Nikitikha in Kurchaloyevsky District of Chechnya, five soldiers were reported killed and six others sustained injuries. An explosion in Ingushetia killed seven people, including among them the republic’s police chief and acting first deputy Interior Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev.

• May 23 - Four intelligence officers were killed and three others wounded when about 15 guerillas attacked an Internal Troops post in Vedensky District.

• June 17 - Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, the Ichkerian President since the death of Maskhadov, and at least two FSB agents and Chechen militiamen killed and five wounded during a firefight in Argun.

• July 4 - Rebel fighters armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers ambushed a motorized column of the GRU Spetsnaz from forest near the village of Avtury, killing at least seven servicemen and wounding as many as 25 others.

• July 10 - Leading Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev and three of his fighters were killed in the mysterious truck explosion in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo.

• July 26, 2006 - Four militants killed in a building burned down by security forces in Makhachkala, Dagestan. [39]

• September 11 - Three army generals, including Major-General Vladimir Sorokin, chief of logistics of Russia's North Caucasus Military District, and nine other soldiers died in an army Mi-8 helicopter crashed in a suburb of Vladikavkaz. The Ossetian rebel group claimed responsibility.

• September 13 - Eight police were killed and about 20 wounded when Chechen and Ingush policemen fired on each other in the border incident. Among the dead was the Chechen OMON Chief of Staff, Buvadi Dukhiyev.

• September 21 - Five Sverdlovsk OMON special police troopers shot dead in their UAZ vehicle. The attack, a footage of which was released later, took place as the soldiers’ car drew up to a crossroads in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district. [40] In addition, the head of the Shatoysky District military commissariat was killed.

• September 23 - Four servicemen from an Internal Troops' spetsnaz unit were wounded and three unidentified gunmen killed in a shootout near the settlement of Yukerchu-Gonkha. In another incident, a group of servicemen was the target of a homemade explosive device on the outskirts of the village of Dzhani-Vedeno, killing two and wounding one.

• November 3 - A deputy commander of the Oryol Oblast OMON died and four were wounded in the Ural truck explosion on a bridge in Grozny’s Zavodsky district; one policeman died of his injuries. Previously, four Oryol policemen have been killed in Chechnya that year.

• November 8 - Chechen separatists killed at least seven Mordovian OMON policemen in a road ambush near the village of Dair in southern Chechnya, while two servicemen were killed by a landmine and a policeman was wounded in a shootout in a separate incidents.

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2007

• January 29 - Four reconnaissance unit soldiers and one guerilla were killed after a lengthy gunbattle in a forest near the city of Guderemes in eastern Chechnya. The guerilla who lost his life reportedly blew himself up to evade capture after becoming cut off from his comrades. A further two Russians were killed when they came under attack in the Shatoy region, high in the Caucasus mountains.

• February 2 - Chechen police killed four militants in a security operation in Kurchaloy, Chechnya Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said. He said three militants were killed in the clash and that another was wounded before blowing himself up with a hand grenade.

• February 13 - Four rebels and two policemen were killed in the village of Ishkoi-Yurt, eastern Chechnya. The rebels were said to be hiding out in a deserted house when they were located and killed by the security forces.

• February 23 - An explosion at the headquarters of a police unit in Novogroznenskoye, Gudermessky District, killed at least five policemen and injured three in what authorities said was a land mine accident caused by carelessness. There was no way to confirm their comments; rebel website Kavkaz Center claimed that the blast was caused by insurgents.

• March 19 - Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov vowed to put an end to all remaining guerilla activity in Chechnya within two months.

• March 21 - Tahir Batayev, a Kumyk-Chechen commander of the northeastern front of the Chechen resistance forces, was killed in a shoot-out in Gudermes with federal forces.

• March 23 - Four guerrillas have been killed in a clash with federal troops near the village of Tazen-Kale in Chechnya's Vedensky district.

• March 25 - Rebels published a video of an APC attack near the village of Dargo (Vedeno District) in which they say four soldiers were killed. [41] One soldier died and three were wounded by a roadside bomb outside Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan District.

• April 5 - Kadyrov government forces killed a top Chechen rebel commander Amir Khayrullah (Suleiman Imurzayev) suspected of assassinating President Akhmad Kadyrov. Khayrullah was named a rebel vice-premier on March 7, 2007. [42]

• April 12 - Rebel sources claimed a victory in the several days of heavy fighting near the village of Bas-Gordali (Nozhai-Yurt district) and reported killing of 71 pro-Moscow Chechen soldiers and militiamen including three commanders. [43] The website of Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported four day earlier that two Interior Ministry servicemen, including a commander of the elite Sever (North) battalion, were killed in the area.

• April 27 - Russian military Mi-8 helicopter with infantry was downed by automatic rifle fire in Chechnya, killing all 20 people abroad, including 15 Spetsnaz soldiers and two senior officers. It was one of three helicopters carrying special forces troops sent to reinforce the federal task force fighting the rebels near the village of Shatoy where at least three rebels and five federal troops died.

• May 7 - A Russian spokesman said three policemen and three militants were killed in a clash in Vedeno district, and patrol commander was mortally wounded in the Shali district. [44]

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