To many casual Russia watchers out there, it might seem that the recent military confrontation between Iran and Israel went ...

Chechnya, and to a lesser extent Dagestan, have periodically rebelled against Moscow in a sometimes-violent effort to secure independence. Some of this violence has been led by separatists and ...

In the first Chechen war from 1994 to 1996, Dagestanis sympathized with Chechnya. Hundreds of thousands of Chechen refugees were sheltered in Dagestan, most of them in Dagestani homes.

The republic of Chechnya’s financial dependence on the Russian federal government remains the highest in the country, with ...

According to press reports, they fled Dagestan for distant Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia sometime before or during the second Chechen war with Russia, which started in 1999 and spilled ...

Chechnya, Dagestan, and the North Caucasus: A Very Brief History Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hails from Dagestan, a war-torn Russian region in the North Caucasus.

Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

If you’re like most people, the last time you thought about Chechnya or Dagestan prior to a few days ago was approximately never years ago. But the suspects in the Boston bombings are ethnic ...

Eric Lohr says people want to know more about Chechnya and the background of the suspected bombers in the Boston Marathon.