In other news, all is not well with the Russians in Chechnya. The recent death of nine Russian soldiers in that country was a rare public admission of their losses, estimated to be nearly 12,000 since the second Chechen war began in 1999. The European Court of Human Rights recently found the Russians guilty of extrajudicial killings and torture in Chechnya, a move that is bound to increase international pressure towards a peace settlement in that war.
Ukraine troops to quit Iraq.
In other news, all is not well with the Russians in Chechnya. The recent death of nine Russian soldiers in that country was a rare public admission of their losses, estimated to be nearly 12,000 since the second Chechen war began in 1999. The European Court of Human Rights recently found the Russians guilty of extrajudicial killings and torture in Chechnya, a move that is bound to increase international pressure towards a peace settlement in that war.
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