Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...
"The Second Chechen War for the Russians for the entire period — 6,000 dead," he said. "That is, under Pokrovsk alone in January the Russians have more dead than in the entire Second Chechen War ...
The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the ...
Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was forced to film an apology after rebuking military blogger Roman Alekhine live on ...
effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, ...
Next to him, on a small gas stove, Mikhael Dudadiev, 39, known by his war name Benor, is preparing zhizhig galnash, a traditional Chechen dish made of meat, pasta, and garlic sauce. “It reminds ...
Known as Russia’s most wanted man, Shamil Salmanovich Basayev was a leading Chechen field commander behind some of the most violent and high-profile attacks in the war for Chechen independence.
The younger generations of Chechen and Ingush peoples began to learn about what had happened to their parents and grandparents. They finally heard the stories of how, during World War II ...
TASS/. The Ukrainian security service has filed war crimes charges against the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Ukraine’s security agency said on its Telegram channel that there was "irrefutable ...