“Every wall, every gate, every street has their signs of war in Grozny.” Like hundreds of other members of the Virtual Grozny Russian-language forum, Natasha Raslambekova lived in Chechnya's capital ...

Key point: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in the eyes of many Russians ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in ...

On New Year’s Eve 1994, Grozny became the epicenter of a brutal confrontation as Russian forces entered the city under a silent, wintry sky. What followed was a catastrophic clash that merged military ...

One of our RFE/RL colleagues, Aslan Doukaev, the director of the North Caucasus Service, is featured on the BBC World Service's excellent "Witness" program. Doukaev is speaking about his first-hand ...

Did Chechen rebels massacre a column of Russian soldiers that had moved into downtown Grozny? That depends who you ask. Around midnight on Dec. 15, both the Associated Press and Reuters moved stories ...