THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his trigger-happy cosplay soldiers. Disturbed chief Kadyrov, 48, has ruled over ...

In 2021, he and seven other men were arrested in Turkey on suspicions of plotting attacks against critics of Chechen leadership. In raids on two apartments in Turkey, officials found weapons and ...

The plane is thought to have come under fire from Russian air defence systems as it tried to land in Chechnya before being diverted to Kazakhstan, where it crashed. On Saturday, Russian President ...

A Chechen rebel leader has claimed in an interview with the Daily Express that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane was shot down by Russian missiles fired from a base near Grozny. The Azerbaijan ...

The bloody campaign continued with varying success until the end of August 1996, followed by Second Chechen war, which cemented Russian President Vladimir Putin’s power.

A Ukrainian drone has struck Grozny, the capital of Russia's southern Chechnya region, and caused civilian casualties, state news agency RIA quoted Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as saying on ...

Explosions rocked Grozny, the capital of Russia's Chechnya, early Sunday morning, Dec. 15, in what Russian Telegram channels are reporting as Ukrainian drone strikes. The opposition Chechen Telegram ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny damaged the premises of a special police unit fighting in Ukraine and also injured civilians, the second such ...

Drones attacked the city of Grozny in Chechnya on the morning of 15 December, hitting a building. [The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation; the ...