Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic and a key loyalist of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, condemned the leadership of Russia’s military in an eleven-minute audio clip posted ...

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The outcome is the dangerous mutation of the well-armed dictatorial regime in Chechnya, which constitutes a constant threat to the integrity of the Russian Federation. A more profound outcome is the ...

After losing the first and winning the second Chechen War, Russia has consolidated its hold over the region, home to 1.5 million people, with the help of Kadyrov's father, Akhmat, and loyalist ...

What do the Chechens want? Unlike Osama bin Laden and al Qaida, the Chechens are not fighting to establish a world Islamic state. They’re fighting for a state, period. Chechens are Muslims, but ...

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 ...

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 ... and their 1977 Second Protocol, which governs ...

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 ... and their 1977 Second Protocol, which governs ...

"Zelimkhan explained that the attack on him was connected to his participation in the Chechen war," she told the BBC. "He was a field commander and a close ally of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.

Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put in charge of a war in Chechnya. The bombings were blamed on ...