His Uncle Arbi was a role model for Movsar Barayev, the 25-year-old leader of the Chechen rebels who was killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev, leader ...

TIME.com: What do we know so far about the hijacking of a Russian airliner from Istanbul to Medina in Saudi Arabia? Andrew Meier: The Turkish authorities are saying the hijackers announced themselves ...

The newspaper Novaya Gazeta on Thursday published the last article of its slain special correspondent, Anna Politkovskaya, along with transcripts of videotaped torture sessions of Chechens she had ...

A Chechen human rights researcher is warning that militant Islamic ideology is gaining currency in the Russian separatist region of Chechnya and broadening its appeal elsewhere in the tense North ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 25 (Friday) -- Declaring their readiness to die for their cause, Chechen rebels holding a theater audience of up to 700 people captive in the heart of Moscow threatened Thursday to begin ...

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 ...

Once one of the most overlooked intrastate conflicts, the Russian-Chechen conflict is finally making headlines throughout the world. For centuries, Chechnya has bitterly fought Russia for independence ...

April 15, 2025: Recently Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov sought to dominate neighboring Ingushetia as the first move in establishing a Chechen-controlled coalition in the region. Kadyrov ran into ...

The European Commission yesterday approved another 16.5 million euros in humanitarian aid to support victims of the ongoing war in Chechnya. A Commission background document notes the new allocation ...

Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist... Russian state media ...