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This period (the 1990s - Gordon Hahn) in the country is associated with a sharp increase in crime. In addition, the new Chechen authorities began to pursue a policy of displacement of people from other ethnic groups, which is accompanied by killings, looting, and ethnic cleansing. Journalist Paul Klebnikov called these events a genocide of ethnic Russians, which was carried out in Chechnya before the combat operations that began in 1994. 'It was a bloody war against the civilian ethnic Russian population of Chechnya - so-called forced chechenization,' he wrote. Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2000 described the events as 'a large-scale genocide against the Russian population.' These events were due to both a weakening of the central government and an appeal by the population to restore justice after Stalin's deportation of the Chechen people. The republic's new authorities very successfully speculated on these sentiments.'
In July 1999, the Ministry of Nationalities of the Russian Federation reported that from 1991 to 1999 more than 21 thousand ethnic Russians were killed (not counting those killed in war) and more than 100 thousand apartments and houses belonging to members of non-Chechen ethnic groups were seized in Chechnya. More than 46 thousand were turned into de facto slaves, with their property and passports confiscated with the connivance of the republican and federal authorities (putin-itogi.ru, p. 5).
"We do not know if the burial chamber is Nefertiti or another woman, but it is full of treasures," said Zaazou [via ABC] ... "It will be a 'Big Bang', the discovery of the 21st Century".
Comment: To all those who lump Putin in there with Bush, Blair and the gang in regards to the "war on terror", you're really doing the American Empire's job for it. The Anglo-Zionist Empire created and facilitated the rise of the "Islamic terror" threat. Their war on it was and is a fraud. Russia was on the receiving end of that very terrorism. Its war on terror has the advantage of being real.