Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New ...

EADaily, December 14th, 2025. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, answered the question why Ukrainian UAVs reach Chechnya ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

More than 150 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) may be held in Chechnya, Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Feb. 14.

GROZNY, Chechnya, Russian Federation, March 27 (UNHCR) - The authorities in Russia's war-ravaged republic of Chechnya have announced that, by the end of this year, they will provide apartments to ...

On Feb. 24, the Russian news media first reported the discovery of a mass grave outside a Russian military base containing the bodies of at least 60 Chechen civilians who had been tortured, then ...

TIME.com: What do we know so far about the hijacking of a Russian airliner from Istanbul to Medina in Saudi Arabia? Andrew Meier: The Turkish authorities are saying the hijackers announced themselves ...

Ten years ago tomorrow, the Russian Federation launched its first war with Chechnya, under the rubric of "restoring constitutional order" to the Chechen Republic. After a three-year interlude, from ...

Once one of the most overlooked intrastate conflicts, the Russian-Chechen conflict is finally making headlines throughout the world. For centuries, Chechnya has bitterly fought Russia for independence ...

Bombings and gunfire are daily features of life in Chechnya. But even by those sorry standards, last week marked a low in its recent history. On Monday, a truck bearing explosives equivalent to two ...

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - When it was last in the international spotlight, Chechnya was in ruins, its capital Grozny reduced to dust by the deadliest artillery and air onslaught in Europe since World ...