Vitaly says he is of Russian origin and fought in the Russian army during the first Chechen war, but today fights alongside Ukrainian soldiers on...
Russian unit's lead T-72 tanks, one mounted with a mine-clearing system , halt near Samashky, some 40 kilometers from Grozny, on December 13, 1994....
Chechen fighter takes cover from sniper fire in front of the from the presidential palace destroyed by Russian artillery bombardments in Grozny on...
20Oct99 Chechnya Russian Soldiers Prepare To Attack A Chechen Military Post Just Outside Of Chechnya's Capital Grozny October 20, 1999. A Russian...
Chechen separatist soldier stands on an APC, guarding the presidential palace on Grozny's central square, on November 25, 1994. Tension is rising in...
Chechen rebel passes 03 March 1996 by the bodies of Russian soldiers in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya. Chechen...
Year-Old Refugee Aishat Gandziyeva Cries After Returning To Her Home In The Village Verkhny Gamiyakh Near Khasavyurt, Dagestan September 11, 1999....
Chechen fighter runs for cover as another hides behind a destroyed Russian tank during fighting in Grozny, 08 January. Russian forces resumed...
Russian Army armored personnel carrier and special police forces are seen outside a multistorey block of flats where suspected pro-Chechen militants...
Civilians run 12 January 1995 from a basement to take cover during heavy shelling of central Grozny. Russia launched 14 January an all-out air and...
Pro-Russian fighter from Chechnya stands near a damaged Ukrainian armoured vehicle on February 20, 2015 in Debaltseve, Ukraine. The strategic railway...
Russian soldiers in the Chechen capital Grozny man a checkpoint on Minutka Square in the center of the city, February 25, 2000.
Chechen separatists holding about 600 hostages at a Moscow theater speak to a Russian Television crew on October 25, 2002 in Moscow, Russia. Members...
Chechen woman passes by a tank of Russian federal troops on the main street of Gehy-Chu village, south from Grozny 16 February 2000. Russian forces...
Chechen separatists fight Rusxsian soldiers 05 January 1995 in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya. Russian troops entered...
An armed soldier surveys the area after special forces stormed a school seized by Chechen separatists on September 3, 2004 in the town of Beslan,...
This video capture from Russian television shows a dead Chechen female rebel inside the theater where hundreds hostages were held by the rebels...
Russian Artillery Bombarding Dagestan against Muslim fundamentalists from Chechnya under Shamil Basayev who attempt, staged an abortive insurrection...
Group of Chechen volunteers walk past the bodies of two Russian soldiers who were killed during the last assault on the capital Grozny 01 January...
Picture taken 08 November 2004 in Gudermes shows dead bodies of Chechen rebels, which were killed by soldiers of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov....
Krieg im Kaukasus: eine russische Panzerkolonne rollt durch eine öde Sandlandschaft der russischen Teilrepublik Tschetschenien. Soldaten sitzen auf...
Russian Soldiers Rest After A Battle With Islamic Rebels Near Karamakhi Village, Dagestan, September 8, 1999.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech next to Chechen President Alu Alkhanov and Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov as he...
Russian Army soldier inspects 31 March 1995 at a cemetery in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya, the bodies of Chechen...
Russian Interior Ministry Soldiers Prepare To Attack The Positions Of Chechen-Backed Islamic Guerrillas In Botlikh, Dagestan, Southern Russia, August...
Members of the Russian Army "special forces", followed by a tank, enter in May 1996 in the Chechen stronghold of Bamut, a village in western Chehnya,...
Bearded leader of Chechen separatists Shamil Basayev standing among hostages in the hospital of Budennovsk where he holds with some 70 other rebels...
Chechen soldiers take positions in a trench next to a road leading to Grozny on December 10, 1994 as Russian troops advance closer to the capital of...
Chechen women and men pass in February 1996 by the destroyed presidential palace in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya....
Russian paratroopers guard the camp of their airborne unit in Beslan, North Ossetia on December 03, 1994. The unit was flown in several days ago and...
Civilians come back to the main Grozny market after its destruction by a Russian missile, the day before.
Chechen fighters run across the street, trying to avoid sniper fires as they head for the presidential palace in dowtown Grozny on January 12, 1995....
In this handout image supplied by Host photo agency / RIA Novosti, Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov greets participants of the military...
Column of Russian troops, with armor and anti-aircraft cannons, heads toward the Chechnyan capital 0f Grozny 11 December 1994. The convoy was...
Russian Interior Ministry Soldiers Approach To Botlikh, Dagestan, Southern Russia, On A Truck, Sunday, August 8, 1999. Three Villages In Dagestan...
Russian troops at Chechen road block, re old foes at odds over N. Ossetian-Ingush ethnic war in Chechnya's neighboring autonomous areas N. Ossetia &...
Members of the Russian Army "special forces" look at the bodies of Chechen fighters in May 1996 in the Chechen stronghold of Bamut, a village in...
