Chechen leader Arbi Barayev has been killed in a drive by Russian troops to flush out leading rebels. The death of Barayev, for years described by Moscow as the ringleader of kidnapping gangs that ...

Read more country profiles, external - Profiles by BBC Monitoring, external Capital: Grozny Area: 17,300 sq km Population: 1.5 million Languages: Russian, Chechen Ramzan Kadyrov, son of ...

In this animated documentary, we explore how Russia lost the First Chechen War (1994–1996) - a conflict that exposed the limitations of Russian military power and ignited Chechnya’s fierce struggle ...

The first Chechen film to screen at the Cannes Festival has won Best Documentary while a film about WikiLeaks founder Julian ...

Among those hiding from Russian bombing in Grozny’s basements was Abubakar Yangulbayev, now a lawyer and human rights activist, who was then 2 years old. The First Chechen War left a deep ...

The investigation into the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) aircraft near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan entered its ...

But Russian President Vladimir Putin does ... and spends hours in the AiMed Family Clinic in Chechnya’s administrative capital, Grozny, every day and often stays overnight.

Chechen independence fighters shoot at Russian soldiers Jan. 5, 1995 in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/AFP via Getty Images) After the ...

In late February, Russian propaganda attempted to instill terror into Ukrainians by claiming that up to 70,000 Chechen fighters were headed to Ukraine to support ...

The coat of arms of Russia without crosses was used at the medal ceremony in honor of the 25th anniversary of the formation of OMON "Akhmat - Grozny" to the son of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov ...