Since the first Chechen war, the Vintorez was regularly used by Russian Special Forces in all armed conflicts. The second breath of a silent death The VSS has now has ceased to be a unique weapon ...

15 As the guerrilla war drags on, a jihadi trail forms with foreign fighters entering Chechnya to fight alongside the Muslim Chechens. 16 June 14, 1995 -- an event that shocks the world.

Many other Dagestanis have not been so fortunate. Conventional wisdom holds that the war in Chechnya is based on the tradition of Russian imperialism and the temptations of Kremlin politics.

The Chechen wars need not have happened, if one allows that the second was the product of the first and the first was a war of choice. History did not dictate that Russia and Chechnya go to war, ...

She covered the war there beginning in 2001, and has interviewed Chechnya's controversial pro-Kremlin President Ramzan Kadyrov. On this visit, she was struck by how much the catastrophically ...

When he's not batting away allegations of corruption and human rights abuses, Chechnya's authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov rarely misses an opportunity to open his jacket and cut loose with some ...

MOSCOW — Russia’s mostly Muslim republic of Chechnya is becoming a major player in rebuilding war-ravaged Syria. And ordinary Chechens are likely to foot the bill, with many of them being ...

Badkhen is a veteran correspondent in the Russian republic. She covered the war there beginning in 2001, and has interviewed Chechnya’s controversial pro-Kremlin President Ramzan Kadyrov. Still, on ...