Putin’s Victory Day speech on Red Square was one of the shortest in years, maybe ever. It was heavy on the usual tropes: the ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya in southern Russia, was reported last week to have submitted a request to the Kremlin ...

Ukraine has launched a surprise new cross-border incursion into Russia's Kursk region, with battlefield maps showing reported ...

Maxine Peake pays homage to slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Words of War. Read our review of this simplistic biopic.

Nathan Hodge is a former Moscow bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously a Kabul-based correspondent, covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Journal.

Trump insists he is ‘putting pressure’ on Putin after ‘Vladimir STOP!’ exclamation - US president says strikes that killed at least 12 people were ‘very bad timing’ ...

It was then transformed into a rehabilitation centre for veterans of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989). Since the 1990s, veterans of the two wars in Chechnya have also been treated there.

The newspaper reported that Ivanishin, a miner on Sakhalin in civilian life whom local media described as a veteran of Russia's wars in Chechnya, was mobilised in 2022 and fought in Ukraine's ...