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 ...

A memorial plaque honoring the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger plane crash, which occurred on the ...

GROZNY, Russia – Even during the World Cup, which brought hordes of foreigners to Russia, the capital of Chechnya remained well off the beaten path for most travelers. The Grozny airport doesn't even ...

Russia has published a festive video of Santa Claus becoming a victim of Russian air defence against the backdrop of the tragic crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in Grozny, with growing ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

Uneven performance in Ukraine suggests that Russia’s costly military modernization leaves much to be desired. Of its tactics in urban warfare, past might be prologue. Russia may reprise its brutal ...

Chechen separatists declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Following years of internal turmoil in Chechnya and a failed coup attempt against Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Boris ...

The Russian army has scored a significant victory by capturing Grozny and by inflicting heavy casualties on the rebels. Encouraged by this victory, and excited by the prospect of achieving a decisive ...

2001-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Kislovodsk, Russia-- As a young Chechen man, Anzor Ismailov could have been anywhere on a recent sunny afternoon. He could have been hiding from Russian troops in a makeshift ...

It is not for nothing that Russia considers itself to be the successor and spiritual heir to the Byzantine Empire. Just like the long-vanished realm on the shores of the Bosporus, Russia straddles ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency issued a bulletin warning airlines against flying over western Russia due to the risk of ...

A well-known Russian investigative journalist, Yelena Milashina, and human rights lawyer Marina Dubrovina have been attacked in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya. The Moscow-based ...