The Pankisi Valley, in the former Soviet country of Georgia, has long carried a reputation shaped more by headlines than ...

Former WMD official David Lasseter noted that Russian security forces in 2002 accidentally killed 130 hostages during a Chechen terrorism incident when they pumped a gaseous form of fentanyl into a ...

Chechen Chief of Staff Aslan Maskhadov, a Soviet military academy graduate, had positioned fighters throughout the city. Most Chechen defenders were Soviet-trained veterans who understood Russian ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against Ukraine following a drone strike echo a 2022 plot to infiltrate Kyiv and target President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former Ukrainian government official ...

A Ukrainian drone slammed into the Grozny-City skyscraper in central Chechnya early on Friday, Dec. 5, triggering a powerful explosion that tore apart several floors of one of the region’s most iconic ...

Aishat told her friends she had been raised in a strictly religious family When 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova fled her home earlier this year, she believed she finally had a chance to live the way ...

An exclusive clip of Chechen documentary “Imago,” directed by Déni Oumar Pitsaev, is being debuted by Variety. The film, which is sold worldwide by Rediance and will be released by New Story in France ...

Ramzan Kadyrov said he's asked Putin to be allowed to step aside as Chechen leader. Kadyrov has previously hinted at the move, citing his long rule. Possible successors include Muslim Khuchiev and ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in facing Azerbaijan’s continuing demand that those responsible for accidentally shooting down a Azerbaijani civilian airliner be held accountable, is damned if he does ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Russian lawmakers from neighboring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a “blood feud” unless they prove otherwise, ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck, which had been sent to the frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kadyrov claimed Thursday that the ...

A Chechen warlord who claimed Elon Musk gifted him a Cybertruck accused the Telsa CEO on Thursday of “remotely” disabling the machine-gun-mounted vehicle, which needed to be towed off the Russian ...