Chechnya

He added that the Syrian army forces had in the past few months clashed with Ajnad al-Qafqaz (most of its members from Chechnia) before liberating the region, adding that the corpses likely belong to the army forces.

Tauris, 1998); Ben Fowkes, ed., Russia and Chechnia: The Permanent Crisis.

Although Pakistan has not hundred percent control over foreign mercenaries coming from different part of world namely, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Chechnia, Sudan etc.

As a journalist for the Moscow weekly Express-Chronika, Krikoriants had uncovered the obscence corruption in Chechnia, were mobsters, former Communist Party hacks, self-styled nationalist leaders and others are plundering the new nation's wealth.

(47) Sergei Berdiaev, Chechnia i razboinik Zelimkhan (Paris: self-pub., 1930), 15.

Chechnia, a small autonomous republic in the Caucasus, has declared its independence.

"The documents carried by those terrorists who have been killed show that they are mostly foreigners and come from Chechnia, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Belgium and France to Syria and their passports have all been sealed in Turkey," Issou said.

In Chechnia, for instance, attacks on Muslim institutions started earlier than elsewhere, after the removal in September 1925 of the leader of the local Revolutionary Committee, Tashtemir El'darkhanov, by the South-East Bureau of the Bolshevik Party, under Anastas Mikoyan, for numerous 'errors', including 'exempting the mullahs from income tax' and appointing them as members of the Chechen government, see Ocherki Istorii Checheno-Ingushskoi ASSR, vol.2, Grozny: Checheno-Ingushskoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1972, p115.

Indeed, dedovshchina (a problem only distinctively Russian in the scale of the phenomenon) and Chechnia (a conflict that is quintessentially Russian primarily for the degree of indiscriminate force used) are recurring themes throughout the book: only the chapters by Cooper on the economic dimension (pp.

In the first study 73 per cent and in the second study 82 per cent of the respondents stated their nationality to be "Russian." (6) All but a handful of the respondents (who had been displaced upon the territory of the Russian Federation due to the conflict in Chechnia) had left the former republics, primarily Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakstan, as well as Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan, between 1988 and 1999.

Countries in which PMFs have operated in the recent past include Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville, Senegal, Somalia, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Kosova, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Chechnia, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, several other Gulf states, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Haiti, Colombia, and several Latin American countries (Singer, 2004).

His study focuses on the representation of these unfamiliar lands--Georgia, Chechnia, Ossetia, and other regions--by the Russians as they struggled to assimilate them perceptually into an evolving sense of what the Russian empire represented.