Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya, his first trip there since 2011. He was greeted by Chechnya's self-styled warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. The visit comes amid a Ukrainian incursion into Russia's ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has fought fiercely to keep Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region in the North Caucasus, ...

When Chechnya declared independence, Dudayev's forces captured roughly 80 percent of Soviet military equipment in the republic, an estimated 42,000 firearms, 740 anti-tank weapons and 200,000 hand ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...

The Moscow theater siege was a portent of more terrorism to come, warns Rajan Menon, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow specializing in Russia. He argues that the shocking attack shows that ...