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1 online resource (168 pages) |
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; v. 26 |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
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| Contents |
""Contents ""; ""Permissions ""; ""Abbrevations ""; ""Foreword ""; ""I Beslan: Russia's 9/11? ""; ""Sources""; ""Advance Warnings ""; ""A Trail Run for Beslan ""; ""Preparing the Raid ""; ""The Terrorist Leaders ""; ""The Terrorist Rand-and-File ""; """"The Beasts Came from their Cages"" ""; ""The Terrorists' Demands ""; ""Seeking to Elicit a Federal Response ""; ""President Putin ""; ""Activities of the FSB-Run Headquarters ""; ""One Potential Negotiator is Physically Removed ""; ""Patrushev's Coded Telegram No. 629 ""; ""Public Relations ""; ""The South Ossetiyan Dimension "" |
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""Moderates from the North Caucasus Seek to Resolve the Crisis """"The Role of Former Ingush Leaders Mikhail Gutseriev and Ruslan Aushev ""; ""The Storm Begins ""; ""The Gymnasium Roof Burns and Collapses ""; ""Tanks Fire at the School ""; ""Aftermath ""; ""Bibliographical Update (December 2005) ""; ""II The October 2002 Moscow Hostage-Taking Incident ""; ""An Unusual Kind of ""Joint Venture""? ""; ""Pressure Builds For a Negotiated Settlement with the Chechen Separatists ""; ""The FSB Suppresses a Promising Peacemaking Effort ""; ""Setting the Stage ""; ""The Terrorist Action Takes Shape "" |
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""The Nominal Leader of the Terrorists """"The Active Phase of the Operation Begins ""; ""The Terrorist Assault on 23 October ""; ""Blackening Maskhadov ""; ""Negotiations Leading Nowhere ""; ""Questions ""; ""Aftermath of the Hostage-Taking Incident ""; ""Conclusiom ""; ""Bibliographical Update (November 2005) "" |
| Summary |
This volume contains by far the most complete reports available in English concerning two major terrorist incidents in Russia: the October 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater at Dubrovka and the September 2004 taking of a large school in Beslan in southern Russia. The issues examined are as follows:- the backgrounds of the Muslim extremists who carried out these acts including the de facto leaders of the terrorist assaults, ethnic Chechen Ruslan Elmurzaev and Ingush Ruslan Khuchbarov;- the failure of Russian law-enforcement to prevent these two incidents, documenting both the massive corruption o |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Terrorism -- Government policy
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Terrorism -- Government policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jensen, Donald N
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Umland, Andreas
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| ISBN |
9783838256085 |
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3838256085 |
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