In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two ...

Russian forces pulled out of Chechnya in 1996 after rebels fought them to a standstill in a 20-month conflict. Troops returned in September 1999 after Chechnya- based rebels mounted incursions ...

MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has quashed rumors that legal initiatives are being prepared in the region to permit polygamy, he told Rossiya 24 TV channel in an interview.

But like some other leading rebels, including Kadyrov, he switched to the Russian side after then President Vladimir Putin sent troops in 1999 to retake mainly Muslim Chechnya. Yamadayev became ...

The girl was attacked because they knew whose daughter she was." Chechen leader stressed that the punishment must "be harsh and be made public." On Wednesday, the Russian media publicized the ...