In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two ...

The bombings terrorized Russia. The Russian authorities blamed Chechen rebels and thereby galvanized popular support for a new war in Chechnya. President Boris Yeltsin and his entourage were ...

NALCHIK, Russia -- A Chechen rebel has been sentenced to life in prison for numerous crimes, including torture and killing Russian servicemen. Salaudin Temirbulatov was convicted of killing ...

Two leading Chechen rebels have been arrested in connection with the murder of three British engineers in 1998. The three Britons and a New Zealander were installing a mobile phone system in the ...

Arthur Biyarslanov was just four years old when the war came. In August 1999, Chechen rebels invaded neighboring Dagestan, where Biyarslanov and his family lived, with the goal of establishing an ...

The key to the prisoner deal was freeing Vadim Krasikov, who gunned down a Chechen rebel leader in broad daylight in a public park in the heart of Berlin in 2019. The 58-year-old former special ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the republic since 2007, said he wants to remain in power for life. VOA Russian spoke to regional experts who believe that despite this being illegal ...

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who ...

He was considered a key link in the Chechen rebels' finance network, channeling funds from abroad, The AP reported. Boris Labusov, a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service ...

MOSCOW, June 24. /TASS/. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has slammed the armed mutiny of the PMC Wagner as betrayal and said that Chechen commandos are on the way to the areas of tensions.