effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

Zakayev was a theater actor in the Soviet Union before he joined the first Chechen war of independence. Ilyas Akhmadov. The separatist foreign minister under Maskhadov, Akhmadov now lives in the ...

"If you choose to be a journalist in Russia, you have to accept the risk..." Decal Releasing has unveiled the trailer for a ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...

for their mass internment centers during the First Chechen Wars in 1994—1996 and then again during the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2003 According to information from the US legation ...

I distinctly recall being six or seven years old when I first heard the term “deportation ... In 2004, during the raging war in Chechnya, the European Parliament raised a question about ...

TASS/. The situation in Chechnya has normalized thanks to the Chechens and Akhmad Kadyrov, the first president of that Russian North Caucasus republic, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.