In the 1800s, Russia sought once and for all to conquer Chechnya and the entire wild mountain region known as the Caucasus, seeing it as a vital buffer zone to the turbulent Muslim nations of ...

VLADIMIR Putin has given his clearest signal yet that he’s ready to step down — saying he’s “not afraid to hand over the ...

Speaking to France's National Assembly on April 11, Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza did not petition Europe for ...

The 72-year-old tyrant made the bombshell remarks while praising a suspected war criminal accused of taking part in the Bucha massacre ... to the top” — naming Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov ...

The Chechen veteran of the war in Ukraine, Nursultan Mussagaleev, accused of being one of the main people responsible for the massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Buča and recognised as a ‘Hero ...

CNN. Based in the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau, Dougherty covers U.S. foreign policy. In addition to reporting on news ...

the Beslan school massacre, the conflict in Chechnya, the arrest and trial of Yukos Oil company founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Georgia's Rose Revolution and Ukraine's Orange Revolution. Before her ...

March: A concert massacre darkens Putin's election win On ... serving a life sentence in Germany for killing a former Chechen militant in Berlin. Also in August, Ukraine launched a surprise ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a ...