A Chechen man has been sentenced to prison over a deadly hostage-taking in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, a turning point in the first of the two post-Soviet separatist wars in ...

Life in the Russian army is tough and grueling, but for millions of former recruits, getting by outside the war zone has been worse. “I am kind of lost now. I can’t find my place,” said Nikolai ...

On the last day of 1994, just over two weeks after Moscow began its first war against separatists in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya, Russian forces launched their first major assault on the ...

Separatists in Chechnya have lost the mountain town of Vedeno, their military headquarters all spring. Russian jets destroyed Vedeno's command post last week. Paratroopers then seized the town late ...

Russia's brutal occupation of Chechnya from 1995 to 1996 failed to pacify the region. In August 1996, Chechen forces under Shamil Basayev recaptured Grozny in a surprise raid with just 1,500 fighters.

Suspect in 2002 terrorist attack on Moscow theater detained at Crimean border MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Russian investigators have completed an investigation against two Chechen natives accused of ...