The soldiers have also been forced to contend with a new trend, suicide bombings and other attacks committed by young Chechen women.
The bombing killed two people and the Chechen women were sentenced, respectively, to 16 and 19 years.
A Chechen woman was dragged into an abandoned house, where she expected to be raped and killed.
One Chechen woman told me of a cleansing that went on for 48 hours.
In one room an elderly Chechen woman, surrounded by her relatives, was dying.
He would also marry two Chechen women.
Officials initially identified a Chechen woman as the bomber but retracted the statement later.
Two Chechen women were thought to have carried nonmetallic explosives onto the planes, officials said.
I am a Chechen woman and no longer believe Russia is a great nation.
The majority of them were boys, claimed the Chechen woman.