Netanyahu says Israel will intensify strikes against Hezbollah
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The Israeli military hits targets in eastern Lebanon after the prime
minister announces further strikes.
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, 15 constituent republics became independent countries, but Chechnya was just an autonomous region within the Russian Federation, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin refused to allow Chechnya to break free and form an independent state. In 1994, he ordered the invasion of Chechnya to reverse its declaration of independence and to force the region back under Moscow's control.
ReplyDeleteThe two-year war and the years that followed were filled with violence, chaos and lawlessness. Estimates of Chechens killed in the 1990s run as high as 100,000. Dagestan was for the most part able to avoid the violence of the 1990s and stayed relatively quiet.
What we know about Chechnya http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/20/opinion/lohr-chechnya-dagestan/index.html?sr=sharebar_twitter
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