SOCHI, Russia -- Natasha Yaroslavtseva's son Sasha hanged himself almost a year ago. He was 21, and just back from the war in Chechnya. Back to Sochi, the famous and now run-down Soviet-era resort on ...

How did Russia lose the First Chechen War? This modern history documentary explores Chechnya’s struggle for independence, the military failure of Russian forces, and the rise of leaders like Dudayev ...

MOSCOW, March 9 -- Early last month, gunmen pulled alongside the car of Maj. Gen. Magomed Omarov, a deputy interior minister of Dagestan, a Russian republic squeezed between Chechnya and the Caspian ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...