"Why is Putin's Russia doomed to defeat in Chechnya?" asks self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovskii in an article published in "Nezavisimaya gazeta" on 19 May. The article is pegged to the claim ...
The First Chechen War became one of the most significant military failures of post-Soviet Russia. Poor planning, underestimated resistance, and fierce urban combat in Grozny revealed major weaknesses ...