In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

The First Chechen War traces Chechnya’s long struggle for autonomy, from the historical formation of Chechen identity and resistance to Russian expansion to the trauma of Soviet rule and the 1944 ...

The Moscow theater siege was a portent of more terrorism to come, warns Rajan Menon, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow specializing in Russia. He argues that the shocking attack shows that ...

We trace the long road that led Chechnya into open war with Russia, beginning with its deep historical roots and centuries of resistance to imperial rule. We examine how Soviet policies, mass ...

* Putin's visit asserts Moscow's presence in North Caucasus * Human rights groups slam Kadyrov's tough methods (Adds rally in Moscow, human rights groups' comments) By Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW, Aug 24 ...

MOSCOW, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Polina Zherebtsova was 14 when the bombing began, smashing apartment blocks and leaving corpses in the street of her hometown of Grozny. Through it all, she wrote about it, ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings have their ethnic roots in Chechnya, a part of the Caucasus Mountains that has spawned decades of violence — from ...