Today marks the fifth anniversary of the storming of the Chechen capital Grozny by Chechen separatists -- a significant date in their first war with Russian forces. Russian authorities have been ...

We trace the long road that led Chechnya into open war with Russia, beginning with its deep historical roots and centuries of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, centre left, Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic Magomed Daudov, and Presidential Envoy to the North ...

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, ...

The First Chechen War traces Chechnya’s long struggle for autonomy, from the historical formation of Chechen identity and resistance to Russian expansion to the trauma of Soviet rule and the 1944 ...

In the middle of the afternoon of February 5 2000, when outside there were the sounds of boots crunching on snow, screams and scattered bursts of gunfire from different directions, Malika Labazanova ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 -- On the eve of a decision to put down a separatist rebellion in the southern province of Chechnya 10 years ago, Oleg Lobov, one of President Boris Yeltsin's advisers, said that what ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Seven years after Russian troops entered Chechnya to end the republic s independence drive, the Kremlin is still fighting to bring the region to heel, the rebels battle on – and the ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (UNHCR) - The conflict in the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya should be resolved through political means, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers said during a visit to camps for ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday made an unscheduled trip to Chechnya, a mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation, his first visit in nearly 13 years, as Ukraine’s ...