Ukraine’s military attacked the capital of Chechnya on Sunday, with locals reporting that three drones targeted military and police bases. Two of the devices were shot down, while the third hit the ...

Dagestan has since become the epicenter of the insurgency. Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after the first Chechen war, leaving it de-facto independent and largely lawless, but then ...

Russia’s fighters are waging bloody battles in Ukraine’s east to add to its captured territory. Moscow supports this war effort with soldiers from outside the regular army, including some from a ...

Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya, his first trip there since 2011. He was greeted by Chechnya's self-styled warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. The visit comes amid a Ukrainian incursion into Russia's ...

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 ...

According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...

FOR A SMALL territory of 1.5m people, Chechnya has played a big role in shaping modern Russia. The Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s were the only large conflicts, among those that followed ...