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On the 30th anniversary of the first Chechen war that became a turning point in Russia’s modern history, VOA Russian interviewed Abubakar Yangulbayev, the 32-year-old outspoken exiled Chechen activist and personal enemy of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Yangulbayev says Russia’s storming of Grozny in December 1994 was a war against democracy in Chechnya that then developed into Putin’s war against democracy in Russia as a whole.
