Guerrilla phase (2000–2009) The Staropromyslovsky massacre occurred between December 1999 and January 2000 when at least 38 confirmed civilians were summarily executed by Russian federal soldiers[1] during an apparent spree in Staropromyslovsky City District of Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic, according to survivors and eyewitnesses.
Most of the 38 victims were women and elderly men, and all appear to have been deliberately shot by Russian soldiers at close range.
[2] Russian military and civilian authorities are not known to have seriously investigated the Staropromyslovsky killings, as well as other similar incidents in Chechnya.
On November 29, 2007 the ECHR has made a decision on the case of Tangieva v. Russia in favor of a relative of victims of one of the summary executions in the district that took place in the early hours of January 11, 2000.
Their deaths were attributed to the Russian Federation; the Court also blamed Russia for the failure to provide an effective investigation.