As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has ...

According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...

Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, had maintained close ties with Vladimir Putin, likened to a "father-son relationship" Kadyrov has carved out enemies in Russia's security and intelligence services ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...