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  2. Zaza Okuashvili - Wikipedia

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    On 19 February 2004, armed and masked Special Forces units raided and occupied Iberia TV and Omega Group buildings. Iberia was forced off the air, its licence revoked, and demands were made to Okuashvili by the then presidential administration to surrender majority shareholdings in his businesses. [6] [7] Okuashvili successfully resisted these ...

  3. Alpha Group - Wikipedia

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    Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN FSB) (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is a stand-alone sub-unit of Russia's special forces within the Russian Special Forces Center of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

  4. List of military special forces units - Wikipedia

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    special-operations forces strategic formations and units of the armed forces, whose role is to conduct sabotage, reconnaissance, subversive and other special operations on the territory of foreign countries. In wartime they may also be assigned tasks such as intelligence-gathering, the seizure or destruction of key installations, the conduct of ...

  5. Moscow theater hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    Early Saturday morning, 26 October, forces from Russia's Spetsnaz (Special Forces, literally "special purpose") from the FSB (Alpha Group and Vympel), with the assistance of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) SOBR unit, surrounded and stormed the theater; all were heavily armed and masked.

  6. Cold War lessons could be key for special operations forces ...

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    Between 2018 and 2022, most Army and Marine Corps Special Operations Forces didn't meet the necessary foreign language proficiency goals. Such skills have been vital for US military cooperation ...

  7. Special Operations Forces (Russia) - Wikipedia

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    The Formation of the Center was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013. The center would be directly subordinate to the Special Operations Forces Command of the Russian Ministry of Defense. At the end of April 2013, units of the Special Operations Forces conducted a special tactics exercise at Elbrus mountains at an altitude of 4,500 ...

  8. Masked Singer star shocks own children with Christmas special ...

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    A star of The Masked Singer's 2024 Christmas special kept her appearance a secret from her own children, revealing their shocked reactions in an Instagram video. In the Boxing Day episode ...

  9. Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War) - Wikipedia

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    In April 2015, retired Russian Admiral Igor Kasatonov said that the "little green men" were members of Russian Spetsnaz special forces units. According to his information, Russian troop deployment in Crimea included six helicopter landings and three landings of Ilyushin Il-76 with 500 troops. [31] [32] [33] [34]