As horrible as it was to watch the video footage from the Moscow streets around the theater where some 700 hostages were held until government forces stormed the building early this morning, it is as ...

On the 25 th anniversary of the beginning of the second post-Soviet Chechen war, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky says that that conflict is, despite what many think, far from over and will become a major ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist... Russian state media ...

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In the aftermath of chaos and collapse following the Soviet Union's fall, Russia stood on the brink. Amid this instability, a little-known former KGB officer emerged from the shadows. This episode ...