MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (UNHCR) - The conflict in the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya should be resolved through political means, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers said during a visit to camps for ...

Russia’s violent 1993 coup marked a turning point in the country’s post-Soviet history. The political crisis, including tanks firing on parliament, set the stage for instability that contributed to ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Seven years after Russian troops entered Chechnya to end the republic s independence drive, the Kremlin is still fighting to bring the region to heel, the rebels battle on – and the ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

A drone strike that damaged the Russian Special Forces University of Vladimir Putin in the Chechen city of Gudermes on Oct. 29 may have been launched from Russia's neighboring North Caucasus republics ...

They spent their childhoods counting victims, listening to detonations and military helicopters, hearing stories of horrors, and speaking their first words as refugees. December 2025 marked 30 years ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - Chechen rebels shot down a Russian military helicopter Sunday, killing nine soldiers, shortly after the defense minister announced he was suspending plans to cut back Moscow's ...

(AP) - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson opened a boxing tournament in Chechnya on Thursday, becoming the first international celebrity to visit the war-ravaged Russian republic.