For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

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 ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

How did Russia lose the First Chechen War? This modern history documentary explores Chechnya’s struggle for independence, the military failure of Russian forces, and the rise of leaders like Dudayev ...

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - When it was last in the international spotlight, Chechnya was in ruins, its capital Grozny reduced to dust by the deadliest artillery and air onslaught in Europe since World ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Here are some facts about southern Russia's mostly Muslim Chechnya republic, where violence has escalated over recent months, leading the Kremlin to name the North Caucasus its ...

EADaily, December 14th, 2025. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, answered the question why Ukrainian UAVs reach Chechnya during a live broadcast on December 14.

Welcome to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Once known for the conflicts of the 1990s and early 2000s, Grozny was referred to as 'the ...

A CAR bomb in a quiet Moscow district has killed one of Vladimir Putin’s top generals, making him the third senior Russian ...

SOCHI, Russia -- Natasha Yaroslavtseva's son Sasha hanged himself almost a year ago. He was 21, and just back from the war in Chechnya. Back to Sochi, the famous and now run-down Soviet-era resort on ...

Moscow, 16 August 2002 (RFE/RL) -- An official envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov says he has met in Switzerland with former Russian Security Council Secretary-General Ivan Rybkin to ...

Tesla Cybertruck might enter the war in Russia and Ukraine on the Russian side, as the leader of the Chechen region got one and put a machine gun on it. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen ...