Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. X / @TheDeadDistrict A Russian special forces base and an FSB building in Chechnya were struck by Ukrainian drones ahead of peace ...

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 ...

Kadyrov does not want to sacrifice Chechnya’s population for the “Russian world,” the source said. At the same time, he has used the war to consolidate his power and suppress perceived disloyalty.

Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...

The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia – Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV Facing what ...

GROZNY, June 3. /TASS/. The Vostok-Akhmat battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry has used UAVs to neutralize Ukraine’s troops and equipment in the Orekhovsky direction, Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya in southern Russia, was reported last week to have submitted a request to the Kremlin to be relieved of his post. Kadyrov was appointed by President Vladimir ...

Mark Galeotti’s Putin’s Wars offers a detailed analysis of how Vladimir Putin has employed military force, including regular and special operations units, as well as the Federal Security Service (FSB) ...