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Invisible War: Russia's Abusive Response to the Dagestan In September 1999, a series of apartment bombings took place in Russia which killed over 350 people and were purportedly carried out by Chechen separatists, leading to full-scale war between Chechnya and Russia. The Second Chechen War was a bloody and brutal affair that left tens of thousands of civilians dead or missing. Human rights abuses were widely perpetrated by the Russian army and their Chechen loyalist militias led by Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya. Throughout the bloodshed, journalist Anna Politkovskaya reported on the atrocities from the ground, earning her the hatred of both Vladimir Putin and Kadyrov, who once told her, "You're an enemy. To be shot."⁠ ⁠ Then, on October 7, 2006, she was. Found dead in the elevator of her apartment building, Politkovskaya was said to be working on a story that called Kadyrov the "Chechen Stalin of our days" and to have evidence that Putin and Russia