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 ...

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

In his 2005 speech, Vladimir Putin’s statement that ‘the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century’ set the stage for authoritarianism in Russia A year ...

part of a plan initially announced last year as Moscow seeks tighter economic ties with countries it considers allies amid its standoff with western nations over the war in Ukraine. After cutting ...

Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military, which brought them here as conscripts. Beginning in the 1850’s, Jews, who now constitute a tiny ...

This is Chechnya 🤬 In 1999, the capital of Chechnya, Grozny, was wiped out by the Russians. But 3 years before that, Russia had signed a peace treaty with the Chechens. They had lost the war ...

Kazakh officials released the report February 4, stating the 53-parge document “does not purport to assign blame or responsibility to anyone” for the incident, in which an Azerbaijani flight bound for ...

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s republic of Chechnya ... making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet ...