The Moscow theater siege was a portent of more terrorism to come, warns Rajan Menon, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow specializing in Russia. He argues that the shocking attack shows that ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on ...

On October 18, 2022, roughly eight months after Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine, a high-ranking Russian officer texted several messages to his wife, and several acquaintances, back home in ...

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 ...

The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia - Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV The Muslim ...

A suspected Ukrainian drone attack rocked the Chechen capital, Grozny, early on December 5 just hours after Ukrainian negotiators met with US officials in Florida seeking details from a meeting at the ...

We trace the long road that led Chechnya into open war with Russia, beginning with its deep historical roots and centuries of resistance to imperial rule. We examine how Soviet policies, mass ...

The victorious Western alliance saw Russia as a crumbled post-Soviet state and did not make enough efforts to let Moscow join ...