Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New ...

“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 ...

Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport on Tuesday, hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the breakaway republic to end its civil war within two days or face direct ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian planes dropped leaflets on Chechnya’s besieged capital of Grozny on Monday, warning residents and rebels to flee before the launch of a massive attack to smash Grozny into submission. Russia ...

MOSCOW — After two days of fighting in the streets of Grozny, the Russian military conceded last night that its troops were meeting strong opposition as they struggled to seize control of the Chechen ...

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 ...