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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Just as consequentially, the First Chechen War was perceived as a rock-bottom humiliation of the newly democratic Russia. Yeltsin’s government had not only turned to ...

Fearsome Chechen fighters have been airlifted out of the war zone after losing several hundred troops, Ukrainian military intelligence claims. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the troops, ...

Twenty years ago, the first war between the Russian Federation and its independence-minded republic of Chechnya ended. The nearly two-year conflict was some of the worst violence Europe had seen since ...

The head of the republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, during a statement about the military conflict in Ukraine, in Grozny on February 25, 2022. CHINGIS KONDAROV / REUTERS For more than 15 years, one ...