The elite 155th and 40th marine brigades of the Russian Armed Forces, also known as the Black Berets, were involved in the ...

Vladimir Putin is facing a potentially serious outbreak of inter-ethnic violence, after a former Chechen and Ingush ...

Russia has sustained over 600,000 casualties since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Defense News reported on ...

"Russian losses, again both killed and wounded in action, in just the first year of the war exceeded the total of all Soviet ...

Chechen lands were then conquered and annexed. However, this did not end the uprisings, which continued until the empire's collapse and even into the Soviet period. During the Second World War ...

A Georgian national, Khangoshvili had fought in the second Chechen war against Russian forces in the North Caucasus in 2001-2005. He had been a close ally of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov ...

"Zelimkhan explained that the attack on him was connected to his participation in the Chechen war," she told the BBC. "He was a field commander and a close ally of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.