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On 11 December 1994,3 the Russian Army launched its ill-fated attack on the Republic of Chechnia4 on the southern border of the Russian Federation. Until then Chechnia had been terra incognita to the world, a state of affairs that would quickly change as the international media joined Russian tanks and troops in a race towards the capital of the independent-minded Caucasian republic. While Russian forces laid siege to Grozny,5 foreign as well as Russian journalists crowded the city.
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no state.
V.I. Lenin1
The most obnoxious aspect of Russian policy towards Chechnia is its highly Soviet style; the object of that policy is demonized and slandered; mendacity characterizes public communiqués about what is happening and brutality is ruthlessly applied irrespective of its consequences for human rights.
Zbigniew Brzezinski2
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Sirén, P. (1998). The Battle for Grozny: The Russian Invasion of Chechnia, December 1994–December 1996. In: Fowkes, B. (eds) Russia and Chechnia: The Permanent Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26351-6_4
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