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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital of Chechnya in southwest Russia. In the center of a rich oil-producing area, it was a major objective of German forces during World War II. Much of the city was destroyed in battles (1994–1995 and 1999–2000) between Russian troops and Chechen secessionists.
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- proper noun The
capital city ofChechnya ,Russia .
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- noun the capital of Chechnya in southwestern Russia; center of extensive oil fields
Etymologies
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Musa Sadulayev/Associated Press GRUESOME SCENE: Special forces combed the scene of a bomb blast at Chechnya's parliament Tuesday in Grozny, Russia, after militants carried out a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded.
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All of them seemed to have survived at least one very close encounter with death (one paused half a minute to eat a walnut and thus avoided getting blown to bits by a rocket that killed two soldiers in Grozny) and most of them had been wounded.
What the heck have I been doing the last few months? trinfaneb 2005
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Guys who fought in Grozny [Chechnya], in Afghanistan, guys who aren't all that interested in giving up.
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Guys who fought in Grozny [Chechnya], in Afghanistan, guys who aren't all that interested in giving up.
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Actually, two of them at the government building in Grozny, which is the capital of Chechnya.
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If Russian soldiers abduct and murder a Chechen in Grozny, that is not counted as terrorism, if Chechens do the same in Moscow, it is.
The New Republic - All Feed Marty Peretz 2010
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Why Grozny was such a target is not entirely clear since it was still controlled by Maskhadov, who even the Russians agreed had not been organizing terrorist attacks or cross-border incursions.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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From 1816, General Aleksey Yermolov set out to subjugate the mountain peoples, building forts south of the Terek and founding the fortress city of Grozny “Menacing”.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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They rounded up the inhabitants at gunpoint, herded them into American Studebaker trucks supplied under the lend-lease program, and drove them to the Grozny railway station, where they were packed into cattle wagons.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The chairman of the Grozny City Council, Vitaly Kutsenko, was either thrown out of a window to his death or fell while trying to escape, depending on whose account one believes.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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