AT THE END of Grozny’s Putin Prospect, facing the city’s mosques and skyscrapers, stands a vast “Memorial Complex of Glory”. The complex, with a golden obelisk flanked by a marble colonnade, is ...
Brutal tactics employed by Russia in its war on Ukraine have shocked much of the world but come as no surprise to older residents of Chechnya, who this week marked the 30th anniversary of an equally ...
Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...
Russia’s fighters are waging bloody battles in Ukraine’s east to add to its captured territory. Moscow supports this war effort with soldiers from outside the regular army, including some from a ...
More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has repeatedly supported Russia in its war against Ukraine, often praising President Vladimir Putin and launching tirades against the West. However, ...
FOR A SMALL territory of 1.5m people, Chechnya has played a big role in shaping modern Russia. The Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s were the only large conflicts, among those that followed ...
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - When it was last in the international spotlight, Chechnya was in ruins, its capital Grozny reduced to dust by the deadliest artillery and air onslaught in Europe since World ...