But the amount paid out was meagre and insulting. Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to ...
On behalf of all of us and on behalf of the entire Chechen people, I want to congratulate him and wish him health, love in his family and security in the state. The people of the Russian ...
The Polish prosecutor's office warned that Akhmed Zakayev would be arrested on an international warrant if he arrived in Poland to attend the third World Congress of the Chechen People that was ...
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 ...
And since Russia never suppressed religious freedom in Chechnya and the Chechen people’s way of life, the choice was clear for Kadyrov, Putin noted. "He made his own choice. And you know what ...
He previously worked as a State Duma deputy in Russia's Dagestan region. The grappling savant also worked as the Chechen Wrestling Federation's president from 2015 until his passing in March 2025.
In 1999, a series of apartment bombings in Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk killed more than 300 people and injured more than 1,000. The Kremlin swiftly blamed Chechen terrorists, using the ...