Firefights echoed across the plains on the outskirts of Grozny on Friday, evidence that a Russian move on the Chechen capital may be in the works if not already under way. The rattle of machine-gun ...

Chechen separatists declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Following years of internal turmoil in Chechnya and a failed coup attempt against Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Boris ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in ...

Hundreds of separatist rebels abandoned Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on Tuesday as Russian forces took advantage of their flight, pounding the guerrillas with artillery as they tried to escape ...

Czech journalist Petra Prochazkova is known for both her humanitarian projects and her work as a war correspondent in the conflict areas of the former Soviet Union. She reported from Grozny during the ...

SAMARA, Russia — An abiding dread has settled on this peaceful old city along the Volga River, as Samarans have begun to understand that those were mainly their sons whose bodies were left behind on ...

This is the year, according to an order from a president whom few dare to disappoint, that the architectural scars of war in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, will be removed. That the order has nearly been ...