Twenty years ago, as Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin launched a military operation in Chechnya that would come to define his rule and haunt it. 1 A man waving a separatist Chechen flag in ...
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 ...
NAZRAN, Russia -- The recent foray by some 200 Chechen rebels into neighboring territory, sparking one of the largest battles ever in the three-year Chechen war, has highlighted the Russian military's ...
Chechen opposition activist Mansur Movlaev, known for his criticism of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has been detained in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Mediazona reports, citing Radio Azattyk. A court in ...