Authoritarian Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is accused by human rights groups of torturing critics A video of a teenager appearing to be tortured and "apologising" for criticising the Chechen ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is recognized ... labeled US President Joe Biden a "war criminal" and attributed the massacre ...

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 senior Chechen commander and member of Russia's parliament has been reported wounded in Ukraine, although colleagues have been quick to say he is alive and well. Adam Delimkhanov is a close ally ...

As far back as 1995, Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev predicted war by saying that "there will be a massacre in Crimea, and Ukraine will be at war with Russia." Another quote from him is also often ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin lays flowers as he visits the destroyed school, where in 2004 Chechen militants took ... Russia to the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which some 330 people ...