THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his ...

For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of Grozny. The Chechens were fighting from trenches and the rubble of ...

Russian aviation authorities did not allow the plane to land in any of the multiple airports nearby, forcing the pilots to ...

After an Azerbaijan Airlines jet crashed in Kazakhstan, speculation mounted about why the plane went down and whether ...

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a ...

Sources told Reuters the plane had been hit by Russian fire. "It was as if it was drunk - not the same plane anymore," one ...

The Kremlin leader "apologized for the fact that the incident happened in Russian airspace" during a call with Azerbaijan's president.

Vladimir Putin apologized Saturday after the US and Azerbaijan accused Russia of shooting down a passenger plane, killing 38 ...

Rosaviatsia, Russia's aviation authority, cited the presence of “Ukrainian combat drones” around Grozny. Chechnya is close to Ukraine and the ongoing war with Russia. Rosaviatsia also reported that ...

Grozny has become a key target for the Ukrainian ... The former separatist rebel fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War, only to change sides and join Moscow in the second conflict ...