Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Alpha yakanga ichishanda muHondo yechipiri yeChechen yakatanga muna 1999, pamwe chete neyakazotevera
Kumukira muNorth Caucasus. Munguva yehondo ya2000 yeKomsomolskoye, maAlpha snipers akabatanidzwa kuWestern Group yaVladimir Shamanov yemauto emubatanidzwa, akaiswa mukuyedza kudzvinyirira maSniper aRuslan Gelayev mumusha. Sekureva kwevakuru vechikwata ichi, mashandiro ayo Alpha akapinda nawo akatungamira mukusungwa kwemutungamiriri weChechen Salman Raduyev muna 2000, kuurayiwa kwemutungamiriri weChechen Arbi Barayev muna 2001, kuurayiwa kweMutungamiri weChechen Aslan Maskhadov muna 2005, uye kuurayiwa kwemutungamiri wevapanduki vekunze Abu Hafs muDagestan muna 2006. Zvichitevera kuendeswa kwemabasa muChechnya kubva kubazi rezvekudzivirirwa kuenda kuFSB muna Ndira 2001, uye pamberi pe "Chechenization" mutemo wakatanga muna 2003, nhengo dzeAlpha (pamwe nevamwe vashandi veRussia nemasoja eChechen pro-Moscow) vakapinda mune angangoita gumi akasanganiswa "mapoka akakosha akasanganiswa" (, SSGs), anoonekwa semapoka erufu nemapoka anorwira kodzero dzevanhu nevanoona vekunze. Zvinotendwa kuti maSSG aive kumashure kweakawanda e "mazita / kero yekuchenesa" ("imeny/adressny zachistki"): kazhinji husiku husiku nevarume vakapfeka zvipfeko mumotokari dzisina kunyorwa, vachitarisa varwi vanopandukira kana vekare varwi, vatsigiri vavo, hama dzavo, kana vamwe vanhuwo zvavo kuti vanyangarike nechisimba kana kuurayiwa kunze kwemutemo. Muna 2005, sangano reHuman Rights Watch rakataura kuti kunyangarika kwacho kwakanga kwasvika pamwero wemhosva dzinopesana nevanhu, uye kuti "Russia ine mukurumbira usina kunaka wokuva mutungamiriri wepasi pose panyaya yokunyangarika kwevanhu". UFSB yeChechnya yakaumbawo chikwata cheAlpha chemuno, icho chaifungidzirwa kuti chakafanana nebasa rayo nemaSSG.