It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia expected ...

effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

What do the Chechens want? Unlike Osama bin Laden and al Qaida, the Chechens are not fighting to establish a world Islamic state. They’re fighting for a state, period. Chechens are Muslims, but ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic and a key loyalist of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, condemned the leadership of Russia’s military in an eleven-minute audio clip posted ...

Yamadayev fought against Russia in the first Chechen war of 1994-96, when Moscow suffered a humiliating defeat and had to pull out of the separatist southern province. But like some other leading ...

TASS/. For the first time since the early 1990s Chechen conscripts have begun to be drafted into Russia’s armed forces. All of them will be serving not very far away from home, in the Southern ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...