effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

The younger generations of Chechen and Ingush peoples began to learn about what had happened to their parents and grandparents. They finally heard the stories of how, during World War II ...

The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the ...

The attack by Russian “sabotage and assault groups” was confirmed by Ukrainian General Command, who also said the Kremlin ...

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was alive and being held captive in Chechnya along with several other Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs). A Ukrainian soldier who was released in a prisoner swap in June 2023 told Rashevska that he ...

I first set foot in Russia a couple of years after the presidents of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia signed a declaration in a ...

The two men barely pay attention. They’ve heard it all before, and know they can’t change much. Benor is a veteran of the ...