Diana Markosian traveled to the Chechen capital, Grozny, to document a city transformed. These images show streets and buildings pulverized during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, and how they ...

This is the year, according to an order from a president whom few dare to disappoint, that the architectural scars of war in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, will be removed. That the order has nearly ...

Firefights echoed across the plains on the outskirts of Grozny on Friday, evidence that a Russian move on the Chechen capital may be in the works if not already under way. The rattle of machine-gun… ...

An old woman returns to Grozny in 1995 after a battle between Chechen separatists and Russian forces had leveled much of the city. Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected ...

Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and Dresden. The ruins of Grozny, the war-scarred capital of Chechnya, have been compared to all three. Blackened, fissured and sad, for over a decade they have stood almost ...

As hoods go, Grozny definitely qualifies as one of the meanest. Growing up during the Chechen war, young rappers like 27-year-old Yusup Nakhmudov, have seen friends blown apart by bombs. Others ...

Mr. Kovalyov has been hailed by many for speaking out against the war and for his decision to spend several weeks in Dzhokhar M. Dudayev’s presidential palace in Grozny, acting in effect as a ...

Today, Grozny is perhaps the most famous city in the Northern Caucasus. Unfortunately, its fame is largely connected to the sad events of the last ...

Grozny’s mayor, Beslan Gantemirov — amnestied in 1999 from a Russian prison where he was serving six years for embezzling municipal reconstruction funds after the last Chechen war in the mid ...

Meet Elza Duguyeva, a Chechen woman who roams the streets of Grozny with her children in search of aluminum to sell. I met her on Moscow Street. She was walking along nimbly, or as nimbly as her ...