A Chechen man walks across a square at the Presidential Palace in Grozny in January 1996. Russia heavily bombed Chechnya during its 1994-96 war there.

Hundreds of separatist rebels abandoned Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on Tuesday as Russian forces took advantage of their flight, pounding the guerrillas with artillery as they tried to escape … ...

An old woman returns to Grozny in 1995 after a battle between Chechen separatists and Russian forces had leveled much of the city. Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected ...

On June 19, 2025, in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, @iles_hasanov shared a video of a dramatic roadside encounter. In the video, ...

In 1999, Vladimir Putin ordered the complete destruction of the Chechen capital of Grozny. The Russian military laid waste to Grozny, killing tens of thousands of civilians.

Russian soldiers pick their way through Grozny’s devastated landscape. By Thomas de Waal July 25, 2002 Islamic fundamentalism in Chechnya is a much misunderstood problem. It exists — but only ...

The New Year opens to a new Russia, its essential revolution yet to find a conclusion, its identity unresolved. The attack upon Grozny, the Chechen capital, reveals not only the present government ...

The re-appointment this week of Beslan Gantemirov -- jailed earlier for embezzlement -- as mayor of Chechnya's capital Grozny suggests that Russian authorities are still at a loss as to how to ...

Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did that twice in Chechnya in the 1990s. Is a repeat likely in Ukraine today?