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. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

Authorities have not linked Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to any insurgent groups, and the Kremlin-backed strongman who now leads Chechnya says the brothers got their inspiration in the U.S., not the ...

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 ...

Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...

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 ...

Dagestan has since become the epicenter of the insurgency. Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after the first Chechen war, leaving it de-facto independent and largely lawless, but then ...