THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his ...

Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning ...

To thwart the self-styled Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s independence ... taking full charge of the Second Chechen War after Yeltsin stepped down and Putin became acting president on December ...

After losing the first and winning the second Chechen War, Russia has consolidated its ... The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality and silencing ...

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 ...

As Russia’s first war after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First Chechen war served as a prologue to other conflicts unleashed by the Kremlin, including the war in Ukraine. The bloody ...

Chechnya is a mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation. Kadyrov has been a vocal supporter of Moscow’s war and has sent ... show the drone exploding after it flew into a building ...

He has been a vocal supporter of Moscow's war in Ukraine, and his father, Akhmat Kadyrov, was the Chechen president until he was assassinated in 2004. The republic has a complicated and bloody ...

had been the barracks of a special police regiment named after his father Akhmad, former Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Kadyrov Snr, who subsequently became a close ally of ...

But in 1999, after Mr Putin launched the second Chechen war to restore Russian control over the break away republic, the Kadyrovs changed sides. Akhmad was subsequently installed as the pro ...