For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Tensions between Russia and Chechnya are likely to remain for years to come, especially because the Khasavyurt agreements, which ended the war, did not resolve the question of Chechnya's legal ...

The bombings terrorized Russia. The Russian authorities blamed Chechen rebels and thereby galvanized popular support for a new war in Chechnya. President Boris Yeltsin and his entourage were ...

Russia failed to regain control over Chechnya during the 1994 to 1996 war. But President Vladimir Putin announced this week that the first Russian army units could start leaving Chechnya as early ...

Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC ...

months and years of the Chechen war Russia had never stopped financing the Chechen Republic. “We regularly paid pensions and allowances and subsidized the budget,” Putin said. That line of ...

Kateryna Stepanenko, at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, says that Popov’s dismissal “outraged Russian ultranationalists ... Wagner Group and Chechen ‘Akhmat’ forces ...

Kadyrov sent Chechen men to fight alongside Russian soldiers in the now more than three-year-old war in Ukraine that Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour. In comments ...