Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said he does not consider himself "a supporter of ending hostilities" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Security Service of Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine has served Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov with ...

Achmad, a Chechen commander stationed in southern Ukraine under Russian occupation, believed he had fallen in love with a Ukrainian woman over the past few months. He exchanged messages via WhatsApp ...

Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...

Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) released a video showing an operation in occupied Zaporizhzhia, claiming it disrupted Chechen “Kadyrovite” fighters selling stolen diesel. Working with partisans, ...

The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia – Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV Facing what ...

In a study of the impact of Putin’s war in Ukraine on the North Caucasus, the Memorial human rights organization draws two important conclusions: On the one hand, fewer North Caucasians have fought ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against Ukraine following a drone strike echo a 2022 plot to infiltrate Kyiv and target President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former Ukrainian government official ...

The Kremlin-backed leader of Russia’s southern province of Chechnya has posted a video in which he warns that Poland could be next after Ukraine. Ramzan Kadyrov, who is famous for his bluster, said in ...

Chechen mixed martial artist Dzhihad Yunusov has died while serving in the Russian military during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, according to reports. Yunusov, who compiled a 19-8 professional ...

Succession is never an easy thing in Russia. In Chechnya, it’s even more fraught. In the Soviet era, Politburo transitions were bulldog-under-the-carpet. Nikita Khrushchev, who took over after two ...