As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has ...

Russia’s invasion of Chechnya was marked by intense violence and lasting devastation. Reports detail military strategies, ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

February 23, 1944, is a date indelibly etched into the consciousness of every Chechen, marking their mass deportation from the North Caucasus into exile in Central Asia and Siberia. On the 80th ...

Russia’s violent 1993 coup marked a turning point in the country’s post-Soviet history. The political crisis, including tanks ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 12 -- The broken and burned bodies of children had just been pulled from the wreckage of a small-town school. All Russia was in mourning. And President Vladimir Putin was quietly furious ...

Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, had maintained close ties with Vladimir Putin, likened to a "father-son relationship" Kadyrov has carved out enemies in Russia's security and intelligence services ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...

GROZNY, Chechen Republic — A hulking military transport plane roared onto the tarmac at the main airfield in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic in southeastern Russia, and a group of 120 ...

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 ...