June 14-19, 1995

The hostage crisis in the southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk (110 km from the Chechen border) forces the Russians to sign a ceasefire with the rebels. Up to 200 men led by the radical warlord Shamil Basayev seize 1,500 people inside a hospital. 166 hostages are killed during the storming of the building by Russian forces. Basayev is given safe passage back to Chechnya once he releases the survivors. 
November 30, 2009

The first shift of the Joint Mobile Group arrives in Chechnya. Under the initiative of the Committee Against Torture, an NGO from Nizhny Novgorod, lawyers from different Russian regions start to come to Chechnya for a month at a time to investigate cases of kidnapping and torture. They only deal with people who agree to make their cases public. Joint Mobile Group is the first to present evidence from survivors of torture.  
April 18, 2013

About 300 Chechen militia from Kadyrov’s regiments arrive in the settlement of Arshty in neighboring Ingushetia under the pretext of hunting for Doku Umarov. They withdraw after a clash with Ingush law enforcement authorities, but the border between the two Russian regions has been heavily guarded ever since.  Kadyrov earlier denounced Ingush president Yunus-bek Yevkurov for incorrectly handing the war on terror, but also voiced claims to a large piece of Ingush territory, which from his point of view historically belongs to Chechnya. 
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