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 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 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 ...

Russia should consider mobilizing several million men for a war against Europe, Apti Alaudinov, commander of the “Akhmat” special forces unit, said in his Telegram channel on Thursday. The volunteer ...

News reports say the country's Jewish community condemned Israel for installing metal detectors at the Temple Mount. But are there any Jews left in the mostly Muslim republic? (JTA) — While ...

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 ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...

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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 ...