In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...
Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...
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 ...
According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...
This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...
Moscow blamed Chechen terrorists, though many observers questioned whether Russian security services orchestrated the attacks to justify renewed war. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used the bombings as ...