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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 11/05
Beslan: Russia's 9/11?
John B. Dunlop
October 2005
Abstract
Few experts are as well qualified to write about Russia and Chechnya as John Dunlop. A long-time observer of Russia and author of numerous books on this important country, Dr. Dunlop has spent the past five years studying the Kremlin's confrontation with Chechnya. As the former editor of Chechnya Weekly, he has been a close observer of this bloody war between Russia and Chechnya which to date has cost more Russian lives than the ten-year Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In 2004 Dunlop authored a highly detailed report on the October 2002 Dubrovka theater seizure by Chechen militants distributed by Radio Free Europe. Now he has undertaken another major study in cooperation with the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya and the Jamestown Foundation. This report is part of our continuing struggle to provide in-depth analysis of the war in Chechnya and its spillover into other parts of the North Caucasus.
