Demos Center, Militsiia mezhdu Rossiei i Chechnei. Veterany konflikta v rossiiskom obshchestve

The Demos study on policemen who are veterans of the Chechen war is the Centre’s second in-depth study. The first dealt with the phenomenon of arbitrariness (“proizvol”) in the police force. This new study focuses on one of the contributing factors of this arbitrariness, the fact of having gone through the Chechen war. Although the two Chechen conflicts (1994-1996 and 1999 to the present) involved the dispatch of tens of thousands of military and members of “power” ministries to the combat zo...