Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

Discover the dramatic story of the First Chechen War, where a small republic challenged the might of the Russian military. This documentary explores the origins of Chechen resistance, the rise of ...

I Want to Live (Hochu Zhit), a project run by Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence, has released a video of Russian prisoners of war who say they are from the Chechen city of Grozny. According to the ...

Former WMD official David Lasseter noted that Russian security forces in 2002 accidentally killed 130 hostages during a Chechen terrorism incident when they pumped a gaseous form of fentanyl into a ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

A Chechen warlord who claimed Elon Musk gifted him a Cybertruck accused the Telsa CEO on Thursday of “remotely” disabling the machine-gun-mounted vehicle, which needed to be towed off the Russian ...

Moscow, 16 August 2002 (RFE/RL) -- An official envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov says he has met in Switzerland with former Russian Security Council Secretary-General Ivan Rybkin to ...

2002-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Just hours before President Vladimir Putin told the nation that the war in southern Russia was over, separatist guerrillas in Chechnya killed 21 police officers ...