His Uncle Arbi was a role model for Movsar Barayev, the 25-year-old leader of the Chechen rebels who was killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev, leader ...

Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent for the Moscow biweekly Novaya Gazeta, was in Los Angeles last October, picking out her dress for a media awards ceremony, when some staggering news came from ...

The acting president of war-torn Chechnya survived a bomb attack on his motorcade Tuesday that killed a bodyguard and wounded three other people, including a top advisor, authorities said. The ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 18 -- After dropping all its preconditions for talks with Chechen rebels, Russia opened negotiations today for the first time during the stalemated two-year-old war. When Russia invaded ...

Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...

MOSCOW — Mourners buried assassinated President Akhmad Kadyrov of Chechnya on Monday, while his son, head of the presidential security force, was appointed first deputy prime minister of the war-torn ...

It’s not getting much attention worldwide that hundreds of gay men in the Russian Republic of Chechnya are disappearing and being tortured in what are essentially modern-day gay concentration camps.

MOSCOW, Oct. 25 (Friday) -- Declaring their readiness to die for their cause, Chechen rebels holding a theater audience of up to 700 people captive in the heart of Moscow threatened Thursday to begin ...

The family of the brothers sought in the Boston Marathon bombings has ties to Chechnya. "He put shame on, shame on, the Tsarnaev family. He put shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity," said Ruslan ...

A gang of warlord Magarbi Timiraliyev was destroyed in the highlands in eastern Chechnya in a special operation GROZNY, February 17 (Itar-Tass) —— A gang of warlord Magarbi Timiraliyev was destroyed ...