Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected president of Chechnya in 1991. Under Dudayev, Chechnya promptly -- and unilaterally -- seceded from the Russian Federation. Over the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Russian troops finally took Grozny on the heels of around 25,000-35,000 civilian casualties, but a small group of Chechen fighters infiltrated and recaptured portions ...

Chechen separatists declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Following years of internal turmoil in Chechnya and a failed coup attempt against Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Boris ...

Images of Bakhmut, the latest Ukrainian city to be left in ruins after months of Russian shelling, evoke memories of World War II. Every building reduced to piles of pulverized concrete or a flimsy ...

Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was buried Monday in a traditional ceremony in his home village, a day after the Moscow-backed leader was killed by a bomb blast that put in jeopardy Russia’s efforts ...

All of Chechnya’s believers must overcome the dreadful worries of the past. One year after regaining her freedom, a young Christian girl kidnapped at age 13 by Chechen fighters in Grozny is still ...

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, the conflict has increasingly focused on urban hubs. The cities of Mariupol near the Black Sea and Kharkiv near the Belarusian and Russian border have been ...

Uneven performance in Ukraine suggests that Russia’s costly military modernization leaves much to be desired. Of its tactics in urban warfare, past might be prologue. Russia may reprise its brutal ...

Russia’s federal air transport regulator states that the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 which crashed after diverting to Aktau had made two unsuccessful attempts to land at Grozny, the flight’s ...