It's 1992, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union in the Oscar-nominated Tangerines, and in a bleak, northwest corner of the Republic of Georgia called Abkhazia, the world has more or less come ...
On Nov. 26, 1994, Russian forces staged a covert coup using Chechen opposition fighters backed by Russian armor. Dudayev's forces ambushed the column in downtown Grozny, destroying 20 of the 42 tanks ...
He is the son of Akhmad Kadyrov, a former separatist mufti who switched sides to Moscow, he became head of Chechnya in 2007 with the backing of Vladimir Putin. Since then, Kadyrov has positioned ...