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

As speculation swirls about the Chechen strongman’s health, Moscow faces the challenge of preserving order in a region built on one man’s fear-based rule.

The conversation is said to have happened moments before Pantsir-S1 missiles were fired at the passenger plane.

Chechen independence fighters carry away a woman badly wounded by Russian shrapnel in Minutka Square on Jan. 14, 1995, in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. (Michael Evstafiev/AFP via Getty Images) ...

FILE - A Chechen fighter moves into position next to the Presidential Palace in central Grozny during heavy fighting, Jan. 10, 1995.

Four people have been injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Chechen capital of Grozny overnight, according to the Russian republic's leader, who said more than 80,000 fighters were "ready to ...

Reports have surfaced that Chechen fighters – some possibly belonging to the “Kadyrovite” Akhmat special forces – have been killed, injured or captured in Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk ...

The city of Grozny was flattened, and tens of thousands of Chechens died. Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader of Chechnya, has taken an aggressive stance toward Ukraine since Russia invaded ...

June 16, 2024 A hulking military transport plane roared onto the tarmac at the main airfield in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic in southwestern Russia, and a group of 120 volunteer ...

Russia has reportedly deployed a notorious Chechen unit in Zaporizhzhia. The fighters of the Akhmat Grozny are policing the Ukrainian Nuclear town. Akhmat Grozny operates in Enerhodar, which was ...

Kadyrov, the son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov who was assassinated in a 2004 bombing in Grozny, had last year supported some of Prigozhin's criticism of Russia's top military brass ...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia fought two devastating wars in Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2009 to prevent the region from breaking away from Moscow’s ...