This is the famous video about the brutual beheading of the Russian soldier by Chechen rebels during the war between the Russian Federation and Chechnya in 1996.


The First Chechen War was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in Chechnya's independence from Russia. By one conservative estimate there were 7,500 Russian military, 4,000 Chechen combatant, and more than 35,000 civilian deaths.