Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...

Zakayev was a theater actor in the Soviet Union before he joined the first Chechen war of independence. Ilyas Akhmadov. The separatist foreign minister under Maskhadov, Akhmadov now lives in the ...

The synagogue will be built on the site of a 19th-century Ashkenazi synagogue that was turned into a music school in 1937 and then destroyed during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, according to ...

I distinctly recall being six or seven years old when I first heard the term “deportation ... In 2004, during the raging war in Chechnya, the European Parliament raised a question about ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...

Russia is not as strong as it seems.” During the first Chechen war, Yarosh was fighting against Russian troops in Chechnya on the side of its separatist forces. It is now obvious to everyone ...