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 ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia expected ...

In mid-1994, Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, was in a bind. Russia’s transition to democracy was failing, the military was crumbling, and the Russian Federation was fragmenting.

MOSCOW, Dec. 6 -- British authorities have arrested and released on bail Akhmed Zakayev, a leading Chechen envoy whose extradition case is testing Europe's support for Russia's protracted battle ...