For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

For Russians and Chechens who followed the news on social media, this April began with extremely shocking news that revealed ...

It took more than a decade of fighting before the army of the Soviet Union brought Chechnya under tenuous control. During World War II, Joseph Stalin decided he would no longer tolerate the ...

Adam Kadyrov, 17, is in charge of Chechnya's internal affairs ministry, which oversees police and local security forces in ...

Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC ...

Russian President Vladimir ... support of powerful insiders, such as the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Beyond the superrich, however, are tens of thousands of other opportunists who have benefited ...

This would be the end of Kadyrov's two decades of power in the region. Fifteen years ago Russia finally established peace in Chechnya by putting the toughest warlords in charge. This is an old tactic ...

Kadyrov sent Chechen men to fight alongside Russian soldiers in the now more than three-year-old war in Ukraine that Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour. In comments ...

Perhaps most significantly, the U.S. did not put pressure or sanctions on Russia as the Kremlin waged a brutal war in Chechnya, a Muslim republic conquered in the 19th century that was desperate ...

April 8 (Reuters) - A man wielding a knife was killed after attacking a police station in Chechnya on Tuesday, along with one of the station's officers in the Russian Caucasus region, officials said.