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Chechen extremism, by Jonathan Martin and Nicolas Wright

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Chechen extremism

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by Jonathan Martin and Nicolas Wright

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International terrorism since 1945, episode 21

October 23rd 2002 , Moscow . Forty two ruthless terrorists are holding hundreds of Russian civilians hostage after taking over a theater. Identifying themselves as Chechen freedom fighters, they demand that Russia withdraw its troops from their homeland Chechnya within seven days. Otherwise, they will start shooting the hostages one by one before blowing up the theater and killing everyone in it including themselves. The roots of the crisis in Moscow stretch back to November 1991 , when following the collapse of the Soviet Union , Chechnya declared itself an independent republic. Chechnya is situated in the remote northern Caucasus around a thousand miles south of Moscow , Russia's capital. Completely landlocked, the mountainous country's neighbors include Georgia , Dagestan , Ingushetia and Stavropol Krai . It conquered first by the Russians in the mid 19th century, Chechnya was always one of the Soviet Union's most troublesome territories. A fiercely independent and warlike people with their own language and customs, the Chechens most of whom are Muslims bitterly resented their Russian overlords

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