THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his ...

Grozny has become a key target for the Ukrainian ... The former separatist rebel fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War, only to change sides and join Moscow in the second conflict ...

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a ...

For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of Grozny. The Chechens were ... When telephones and radio got their ...

After losing the first and winning the second ... reportedly carrying out extrajudicial killings in Grozny, Moscow, and Berlin. "The trauma of (the Chechen War) in the early 2000s still looms ...

Ukraine prioritizing security guarantees over immediate NATO membership, senior diplomat says Russia must admit guilt over ...

On the 30th anniversary of the first Chechen war that became a turning ... Yangulbayev says Russia's storming of Grozny in December 1994 was a war against democracy in Chechnya that then developed ...

Among those hiding from Russian bombing in Grozny’s basements was Abubakar Yangulbayev, now a lawyer and human rights activist, who was then 2 years old. The First Chechen War left a deep ...

Russia has warned it “rules out nothing” regarding nuclear testing in response to Donald Trump’s “radical” position on the ...