pro-Moscow Chechen forces

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Pro-Moscow Chechen forces were Chechen militias and security units aligned with and supported by the Russian government, fighting against separatist and insurgent groups in Chechnya.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf armed group
militia
paramilitary organization
accusedOf extrajudicial killings
human rights abuses
torture
activity fighting Chechen separatists
fighting Islamist insurgents
securing control for pro-Moscow authorities in Chechnya
allegiance Head of the Chechen Republic
pro-Moscow Chechen forces self-linksurface differs
surface form: pro-Moscow Chechen administration
basedIn Chechnya
conflict First Chechen War
Second Chechen War
insurgency in the North Caucasus
country Russia
ethnicGroup Chechens
formedAs local militias aligned with Moscow
goal preservation of Russian control over Chechnya
suppression of separatism in Chechnya
ideology anti-separatist
pro-Russian
integratedInto Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
surface form: Russian Interior Ministry structures

National Guard of Russia
surface form: Russian National Guard units in Chechnya
language Chechen
Russian
notableCommander Akhmad Kadyrov
Ramzan Kadyrov
Sulim Yamadayev NERFINISHED
notableUnit Kadyrovtsy
surface form: Chechen OMON

Kadyrovtsy
surface form: Chechen SOBR

Kadyrovtsy
operatingArea Chechen Republic NERFINISHED
North Caucasus
opposedTo Chechnya
surface form: Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Chechen separatist forces
Islamist insurgent groups in the North Caucasus
partOf Russian security apparatus
role counterinsurgency
internal security
support to Russian federal troops
supportedBy Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Armed Forces
Russian intelligence community
surface form: Russian security services
timePeriod 2000s
2010s
late 1990s

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Second Chechen War belligerent pro-Moscow Chechen forces
pro-Moscow Chechen forces allegiance pro-Moscow Chechen forces self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: pro-Moscow Chechen administration