The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the ...

forces out of Chechnya, (Kadyrov) became, in fact, the head of an independent regime, connected with Putin through a personal union," Nikolai Petrov, a Russia expert at Chatham House, told the ...

An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation's victims, in the Chechen Republic's capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev ...

TASS/. The press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry has confirmed that a light aircraft had fallen on a single-family house in a village in Chechnya. "At 07:58 Moscow time, a report came ...