GROZNY -- The last time I visited the Chechen capital, in 2007, it seemed most of the city had been already rebuilt. It was just before national parliamentary elections, in which Chechnya -- only ...

With secret investors and no clear way to make a profit, the $1bn Akhmat Tower may represent something far murkier than Chechnya’s post-war rebirth Sooner or later, it seems, everything in ...

“We remember the pace of Grozny’s reconstruction,” Pushilin said, referring to the damage caused by the Russian military during Russia’s Chechen wars of 1994–1996 and 1999–2000. Pushilin now intends ...