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, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Polina Zherebtsova was 14 when the bombing began, smashing apartment blocks and leaving corpses in the street of her hometown of Grozny. Through it all, she wrote about it, ...

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 ...

KURILOVO, Russia – They marched in a blistering snowstorm early on a dim Saturday morning, a motley group of about 40 gold-toothed babushkas, young Russian soldiers, and bearded Orthodox priests.

EXCLUSIVE: The ghosts of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal past have emerged amid his deadly war in Ukraine as a group of Chechen fighters now looks to establish their own stake in the fight. ...

Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya, his first trip there since 2011. He was greeted by Chechnya's self-styled warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. The visit comes amid a Ukrainian incursion into Russia's ...