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 ...

DONETSK OBLAST — Moscow has fought bitterly to avoid giving up control over the lands it conquered over the centuries — and made many enemies in the process. Now, as Russia is leading yet another war ...

We examine how Russia, despite its overwhelming military power, failed to win the First Chechen War. In this video, we trace the conflict from the initial invasion in 1994 to the eventual withdrawal ...

Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...

According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...

In “Putin Wants Ukraine Back in the U.S.S.R.” (op-ed, Dec. 30), David Satter cites an anonymous “high official” to the effect that the First Chechen War began because Russian President Boris Yeltsin ...