In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two ...

The execution of three Russian servicemen was recorded on video, and Russian authorities repeatedly showed the graphic footage to back up their case against the Chechen rebels. The video shows a ...

Two leading Chechen rebels have been arrested in connection with the murder of three British engineers in 1998. The three Britons and a New Zealander were installing a mobile phone system in the ...

marking its second and ultimately successful attempt to suppress Chechen rebels in the North Caucasus republic. International human rights groups condemned the Russian military for purposely ...

The family of a British journalist believed to have been killed while reporting on the conflict between Chechen rebels and Russian forces have paid tribute to him. Roddy Scott, 31, is understood ...

A Chechen blogger has been shot dead in Vienna in the latest in a series of killings of dissidents from the Russian republic. The victim is believed to be Mamikhan Umarov, “who has been living ...

GROZNY, May 14. /TASS/. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Thursday that negative media reports about a local police chief's plans to tie the knot with a 17-year old girl were "ordered by some ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the republic since 2007, said he wants to remain in power for life. VOA Russian spoke to regional experts who believe that despite this being illegal ...

Arthur Biyarslanov was just four years old when the war came. In August 1999, Chechen rebels invaded neighboring Dagestan, where Biyarslanov and his family lived, with the goal of establishing an ...

MOSCOW, June 24. /TASS/. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has slammed the armed mutiny of the PMC Wagner as betrayal and said that Chechen commandos are on the way to the areas of tensions.