Three Chechen boys play war with wooden guns outside their home in a Chechen village near Grozny, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 1995. Their home-made toy guns are copies of the Kalashinikov rifles carried by ...

CNN — 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 ...

How did Russia lose the First Chechen War? This modern history documentary explores Chechnya’s struggle for independence, the military failure of Russian forces, and the rise of leaders like Dudayev ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov have a personal relationship based on mutual dependence. Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty ...

GROZNY, Chechnya, Russian Federation, March 27 (UNHCR) - The authorities in Russia's war-ravaged republic of Chechnya have announced that, by the end of this year, they will provide apartments to ...

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ban on ...

The evil and barbaric slaughter of Russian school children has left the world in a state of depressed shock. Bush has played it as more of those terrorist “evil doers” out there that his presidency ...