Basayev (left) with Chechen resistance leader Maskhadov in 1999 (epa) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev, 41, began his one-man campaign against Russian rule over ...

Putin (right) shakes hands with FSB head Patrushev in Moscow today (epa) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Shamil Basayev, the most wanted man in Russia, is dead, according to Federal Security Service ...

Shamil Basayev in Dagestan, in 1999. Click image to view. Ingushetia was the scene of the horrific Beslan school massacre, where over 1,200 children and adults were taken hostage. Over 340 were killed ...

WHEN Shamil Basayev was told that he was Russia's most wanted man, he laughed. All right, he admitted, he was a “bad guy, a bandit, a terrorist”. But he was hunting terrorists himself, he argued: the ...

THE RADICAL Chechen warlord who masterminded the Russian school bloodbath that left at least 350 dead was once a soft-spoken computer salesman. But today Shamil Basayev, 39, is Russia’s most wanted ...

MOSCOW – Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for modern Russia's worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday, Russia's top intelligence ...

Chechen separatist leader Shamil Besayev, killed today by Russian forces, was wanted in connection with numerous terrorist attacks throughout Russia and Chechnya in the last 15 years. Nov. 9, 1991: ...

MOSCOW, July 11 (UPI) -- Russia's latest Caucasian war appears to be over, and the killing of warlord Shamil Basayev is yet another serious argument in favor of this opinion. Individuals have always ...

Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Meier, author of Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict about how Shamil Basayev's death may help Putin at the G8 Summit meetings. More now on some of the points that ...

Shamil Basayev started as a Chechen separatist fighter but evolved into one of the deadliest terrorists in Russian history.

Russian President Vladimir Putin handed out medals this week for the killing of Chechen leader Shamil Basayev but Chechens say Basayev died accidentally. The newspaper which reported that Chechen ...

THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED Monday that its security forces had killed Shamil Basayev, a commander of the jihadist insurgency in Chechnya. The death of the man responsible for the 2004 Beslan ...