Article about the attempt by a group of Russian Mothers to stop the first war in Chechnya by direct action. Submitted by Reddebrek on January 26, 2017 "Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia" ...

Twenty years ago, the first war between the Russian Federation and its independence-minded republic of Chechnya ended. The nearly two-year conflict was some of the worst violence Europe had seen since ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

A Chechen warlord who led a bloody 1996 raid on a Russian hospital that killed 78 people died in a prison camp while serving a life sentence, Russia's Justice Ministry said Sunday. He was 35. Salman ...

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.