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On today's show we welcome Anastasia Shesterinina to discuss her excellent new book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia which, using hundreds interviews and extensive field research, explains how and why Abkhaz did or did not mobilize to fight in the war with Georgia in the early 1990s, and how to many Abkhaz as the war was beginning it came as an unexpected surprise leading to the uncertain and uneven mobilization of a collective identity both immediately preceding and during the 1992-1993 war with Georgia.

This episode we're talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are Cosmopolitan for scientists! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, & Christopher Merrill Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto “Machine Love” by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill “Ice” by Lotte van der Krol The 4th Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Dans l'antre d'Aoï garden by Hye-Young Pyun  Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry Other Media We Mentioned “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn” (Wikipedia) “El Dinosaurio” by Augusto Monterroso “El Emigrante” by Luis Felipe Lomelí Every Book Its Reader by @marccold It's lunchtime, which means it's time for a very sad story in which love is found, love is lost, he does her wrong, and she gets her revenge by @marccold Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs edited and translated by John Colarusso New Yorker Flash Fiction Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol  Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (Wikipedia) “Human Intelligence” by Kurt Anderson Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 108 - Visual Novels Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks Book Club for Masochists: Land Acknowledgements Drabble (Wikipedia) Cell phone novel (Wikipedia) Twitterature (Wikipedia) The Short Story Dispenser Storm Crow Beermat microfiction contest (archive.org) Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction Lydia Davis (Wikipedia) Poetry in Transit (Vancouver) Deny Everything - Circle Jerks (Spotify) YouTube 15 Flash Fiction Books & 15 Flash Fiction Stories by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Collections The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn People of Colo(u)r Destroy Flash Fiction! edited by Berit Ellingsen States of Grace by Stephen Graham Jones Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami Complete Works & Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso Forward by Shabnam Piryaei The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China edited & translated by Shouhua Qi Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America edited by by Robert Shapard & James Thomas Microfictions by Ana María Shua Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Córdoba Sosa The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela Work-In-Progress by Ran Walker Stories “Riddle” by Ogbewe Amadin “lil miss jackson” by Nefertiti Asanti “Smoothies” by Venita Blackburn “Gloria” by K-Ming Chang “After 'While” by Cherie Dimaline “Before the Haze Devours You” by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas “As the North Wind Howled” by Yu Hua “A Sailor” by Randa Jarrar “Moonboys” by Stephen Graham Jones “Roe Soup Dance” by Tammy Heejae Lee “Time, Like Water” by Amal El-Mohtar “As Above” by Amal El-Mohtar “Niqqak” by Sedna Qaġaq “More than Nothing” by Nisi Shawl “God Product” by Alyssa Wong Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September 21st when we'll be discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Then on Tuesday, October 5th we'll be getting spooky in preparation for Halloween as we discuss the genre of Erotica!

This episode we’re discussing the dreaded Did Not Finish! We talk about why we don’t finish books, specific titles we didn’t finish, why not finishing books can be good, what “finishing” a book even means, how you “finish” a cross-media property, and returning to books we stopped reading. Plus: Speedrunning books! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Did Not Finish Reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien Rivendale (Wikipedia) Shelob (Wikipedia) A Walking Song The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.” American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville Other Media We Mentioned (and may have finished!) The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling Highlander (film) (Wikipedia) Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso Overwatch (video game) (Wikipedia) Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia) Spyro the Dragon (Wikipedia) Later Alligator Final Fantasy VII (Wikipedia) Grand Theft Auto (Wikipedia) World of Warcraft (Wikipedia) Steven Universe (Wikipedia) Some of the pilot episode Vinyl soundtrack Other Friends Song Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wikipedia) Once More, with Feeling (musical episode) (Wikipedia) Buffering the Vampire Slayer Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Wikipedia) Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi  Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling Tamír Triad Series by Lynn Flewelling Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, and James Jean RJ’s review Links, Articles, and Things Matthew made the spreadsheet of the least finished books for Episode 095 - Ratings, Reviews, and Tags (you can find more info in the show notes to that episode) Retro Hugo Awards (Wikipedia) Smart Bitches, Trashy Books - Reviews by Grade  Goodreads tags Put Aside Set Aside BC4M Bookclub4m Mangasplaining What do they mean by "tricks/strats/splits?" “Strats are strategies used to save time.” Questions Have you ever read a Highlander novel? Will you join us in reading “book twos” in 2022? 20 Religious Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. This retroactive genre list is for our episode on Religious Fiction. As discussed in that episode, Religious Fiction may mean something very different to different readers. The books in this list are fiction with prominent religious or spiritual themes, but vary quite a bit in tone and include a wide range of perspectives. Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Church Folk by Michele Andrea Bowen Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie, translated by by Adriana Hunter Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, translated by Katherine Woods Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi by MaNishtana Deacon King Kong by James McBride Saint Young Men by Hikaru Nakamura, translated by Alethea & Athena Nibley God in Pink by Hasan Namir Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe  A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! No book speedruns on our YouTube channel, but you can watch Matthew (and others) playthrough visual novels! Join us again on Tuesday, June 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Crime Fiction! Then it’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, June 15th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read.

This episode we’re Receiving Book Recommendations! Last episode we asked each other for books in specific areas and this week we’re back with our suggestions for table top role playing games, folklore, healthcare, poetry, urban fantasy and more. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Recommend An Indie Tabletop Game The Queen of Cups  TTRPG Safety Toolkit by Kienna Shaw & Lauren Bryant-Monk The Skeletons Slavic/Eastern European Folklore Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko Natalie Kononenko (Wikipedia) Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales Baba Yaga cross stitch Matthew’s working on Humanism in/of Healthcare 2020 Summer Reading for Compassionate Clinicians - The Gold foundation The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine by Abraham M. Nussbaum Journal of Applied Hermeneutics - Canadian Hermeneutic Institute  Fiction that Surprises Bunny by Mona Awad Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Spellhacker by M.K England The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor The Nobody People by Bob Proehl Urban Fantasy Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron Horror Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia) The Fog Knows Your Name Poetry Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich Ledger by Jane Hirshfield Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Queer Poets Write About Nature by edited by Dylan Ce Feminist Essay Collection Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas Christmas Inn Maine by Chelsea M. Cameron Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum Russian Language Learning Materials Learn to Read and Write Russian - Russian Alphabet Made Easy Sputnik: An Introductory Russian Language Course, Part I by by Julia Rochtchina Space Opera Binti by Nnedi Okorafor To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers Suggestions from our Listeners! An Indie Tabletop Game Bluebeard's Bride from Magpie Games Slavic/Eastern European Folklore Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko On the Banks of the Yaryn by Aleksandr Kondratiev Humanism in/of Healthcare The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson Fiction that Surprises Slade House by David Mitchell Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World Empire State by Adam Christopher The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie Finna by Nino Cipri Urban Fantasy God Save the Queen by Kate Locke Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone Horror And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng Poetry The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy Feminist Essay Collection Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman and Daisy Hernández Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas Whiteout by Elyse Springer Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife by Llew Smith Mangos & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert Russian Language Learning Materials We Read These Tales by Syllables by Vladimir Suteev Space Opera Alien People by John Coon Dreamships by Melissa Scott A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright Other Media We Mentioned Fiasco Ring by Kōji Suzuki Tomie by Junji Ito Spirit of the Season The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart Atomic Blonde (Wikipedia) Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden House of Reeds by Thomas Harlan Links, Articles, and Things Eisner Award for Best Lettering (Wikipedia) Lambda Literary Award (Wikipedia) Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Shadowrun (Wikipedia) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 1st we’ll be discussing the genre that you chose for us to read, New Weird Fiction! Then on Tuesday, December 15th it’ll be our Best of 2020 episode!

Host Aaron Schwartzbaum talks to Maximilian Hess about the Russia-Ukraine credit spat, bonds in geopolitics, and Abkhaz bitcoin(!).

1540 Ignatius of Loyola's Society of Jesus becomes an official part of the Catholic Church. Known as the Jesuits, or 'God's Soldiers,' the order will send missionaries throughout the world to evangelize their faith. The Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in August 1534. In September 1540, Pope Paul III approved Ignatius' outline of the Society of Jesus, and the Jesuit order was born. Under Ignatius' charismatic leadership, the Society of Jesus grew quickly. Jesuit missionaries played a leading role in the Counter-Reformation and won back many of the European faithful who had been lost to Protestantism. In Ignatius' lifetime, Jesuits were also dispatched to India, Brazil, the Congo region, and Ethiopia. Education was of utmost importance to the Jesuits, and in Rome Ignatius founded the Roman College. When Ignatius de Loyola died in July 1556, there were more than 1,000 Jesuit priests. 1939 Poland surrenders as 140,000 Polish troops are taken prisoner by the German invaders as Warsaw surrenders to the superior mechanized forces of Hitler's army. The Poles fought bravely, but were able to hold on for only 26 days. On the heels of its victory, the Germans began a systematic program of terror, murder, and cruelty, executing members of Poland's middle and upper classes: Doctors, teachers, priests, landowners, and businessmen were rounded up and killed. The Nazis had given this operation the benign-sounding name “Extraordinary Pacification Action.” The Roman Catholic Church, too, was targeted, because it was a possible source of dissent and counterinsurgency. In one west Poland church diocese alone, 214 priests were shot. Hundreds of thousands more Poles were driven from their homes and relocated east, as Germans settled in the vacated areas. This was all part of Hitler's master plan as back in August, Hitler warned his own officers that he was preparing Poland for that “which would not be to the taste of German generals”–including the rounding up of Polish Jews into ghettos, a prelude to their liquidation. 1940 The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. This formalizing of the alliance was aimed directly at “neutral” America–designed to force the United States to think twice before venturing in on the side of the Allies. The Pact also recognized the two spheres of influence. Japan acknowledged “the leadership of Germany and Italy in the establishment of a new order in Europe,” while Japan was granted lordship over “Greater East Asia.” Hungary, would later join the Axis alliance in November of 1940. 1993 The Sukhumi massacre takes place, during and after the fall of Sukhumi into separatist hands in the course of the War in Abkhazia. It was perpetrated against Georgian civilians of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists, as well as their North Caucasian and Russian allies. It became part of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the separatists. Separatist forces violated the ceasefire initiated by the United Nations and guaranteed by the Russian Federation, which barred both sides from performing military operations. As part of the ceasefire, Georgian forces had withdrawn their heavy artillery and tanks from Sukhumi. Militants stormed early in the morning and started to sweep through the streets of Sukhumi rounding up all civilians that they found. Men, women and children were executed in the streets, on the roads and inside their own apartments, houses and back yards. According to the witnesses, many people became objects of torture, and some were forced to watch as their own family members were killed—children in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children.

Osneba’s (Kremlin requested) war on Anaklia via TBC, Abkhaz shuki shortage, Beselia and crew leave Otsneba, Hong Kong free trade agreement, Pres Z in France Germany Baku, FM in Warsaw and Geneva, Izoria to Yerevan, EuroJust agreement, pension policy train … Continue reading →

Otsneba buys anti-Gigauri Facebook adds, Supreme Court appointment formula rift, Beselia mad, BI said rift but no rift, Swine Flue, Abkhaz and Ossets close ABL, gas explosion in Didi Dighomi, Good that Ukraine Church split off? Patriarch and Otsneba get … Continue reading →

Dighomi mob attacks Nigerian students, Police predictably screw up response, kid redeems Georgia by giving them their ball amidst it all, Kaladzes embarrassing response, Public Defender talks civil partnership for queer couples, South Osset and Abkhaz government don’t like Georgias … Continue reading →

New especially large drug charge against Bakhala, Papuna gets sued, Tsulukiani says no prob, Devdariani sues accusers, Six miners killed in Tkibuli, Russia bans fruit from Abkhazia not Georgia due to stink bug, Abkhaz ticked off, Kadyrov wants road to … Continue reading →

Ghost states like Abkhazia have the trappings of independence, but are unrecognised by most of the world. On the far north-east shore of the Black Sea, the region is determined to preserve its independence and ancient culture, including a pagan religion based around animal sacrifices, but the price of statehood is deep isolation. Presenter Tim Whewell discovers what life is like in Abkhazia. He begins his journey at the Abkhaz border and continues by horse-drawn wagon - the only available transport. Produced by Monica Whitlock. This is the fourth part of five. (Photo: Abkhaz veterans of the World War II, Credit: Monica Whitlock)

For more than thirty years, Murray Spiegel and his longtime friend Rickey Stein have been on a quest to translate the Four Questions of the Passover seder into as many languages as possible, recording people from around the globe as they ask the questions in their native language. On this episode of Tune in!, Spiegel tells us about the project and the book that resulted from it: "300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions: From Zulu to Abkhaz." Episode 0096 March 19, 2015 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Later this week the Russian resort of Sochi will play host to the Winter Olympics. About 10 kilometres south of Sochi, along the Black Sea coast, is the disputed territory of Abkhazia. There, in the summer of 1992, war broke out as the region began to secede from Georgia. One Abkhaz woman, Ilona Gamisoniya, recalls how it changed lives forever. (Photo: An Abkhazian separatist leads a boy away from gunfire in Sukhumi. Credit: AP)

Paula Garb is Co-Director and co-founder of UC Irvine's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. She is a lecturer in anthropology, director of the minor in conflict resolution, and director of the minor in civic and community engagement at the University of California, Irvine. She is a facilitator and researcher of citizen peacebuilding projects. Garb spent 17 years living and working in Moscow, where she received her M.A. in anthropology from Moscow State University and later completed her doctorate in anthropology from the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Anthropology. She ultimately secured a job as a field producer for CBS News in Moscow, where she worked until she came to UCI in 1991. After returning to live and work in the U.S. she has studied the mobilization of activists around environmental problems associated with the nuclear weapons complex in Russia and the role of citizen initiatives in the ethnic conflicts of the Caucasus. Since 1995, with funding from the University of California, the JAMS Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, USAID, and the Winston Foundation for World Peace, she has been promoting citizen peacebuilding activities and research. Her primary project has focused on facilitating and studying peacebuilding efforts between Abkhaz and Georgian academics, journalists, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, and politicians. In 1999 she initiated a coordination network of peacebuilding projects and organizations working in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, and continues to foster the network. Garb has been using her long-term and in-depth experience and research data from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict to examine and compare how citizens are helping to resolve disputes in other conflict zones, such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Middle East, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. She draws on these experiences for courses in conflict resolution that she teaches for UCI students and Los Angeles gang intervention workers. Her work has also led to a number of publications in academic and other journals. www.ccpb.org

Georgian writer, poet, and playwright Irakli Kakabadze has published more than 50 short stories since 1990 in Georgian, Russian and English publications; he’s also published five books. His celebrated play “Candidate Jokola,” which was published in 2005, is a story of love between a Georgian man and Abkhaz woman. In his country, he is also known as a political activist; he was one of the first writers in Georgia to write about drugs and violence. In 1990 Kakabadze was awarded an award by “Tsiskari” magazine for his novel Allegro, and he is presently living in Ithaca as part of the Ithaca City of Asylum Writers Project.Kakabadze read from his work on September 4, 2008, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place the following day.

Shamil Basayev is a politician and self-proclaimed terrorist fighting for Chechnya's independence from Russia. Chechnya is a small Muslim republic in southern Russia. Basayev has ties to Al Qaeda, the Mujahideen, and many other terrorist networks.He was active in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, where his Abkhaz Battalion helped to fight off the Georgian Army. This Abkhaz Battalion was then brought back to defend Chechnya's capitol city of Grozny. Shamil held off Russia's invading force (which went in under Yeltsin) for awhile but he eventually had to flee.In June 1995, when things weren't looking good for the Chechen separatists, Shamil led an attack on a hospital in Budyonnovsk and took 1800 people hostage. The hostage-taking eventually resulted in a Russian withdrawal from Chechnya, and Shamil became a national hero. A few months later, Shamil would lead an assault of Grozny and he succeeded in taking the capital back from the Russians. Due mostly to Shamil, the Russians lost the First Chechen War.For more information:Theage.comhttp://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/shamil/shamil.htmhttp://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2002/1104/cover/story.htmlhttp://www.caucasus.dk/publication1.htmhttp://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/wolvesden.htmhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/chechnya2.htmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3624136.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3627406.stmMilitary History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine