Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, had maintained close ties with Vladimir Putin, likened to a "father-son relationship" Kadyrov has carved out enemies in Russia's security and intelligence services ...

Rospartizan, an anti-war, anti-Putin Russian network that has claimed several incidents of sabotage against Moscow since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, said the headquarters of the ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has claimed that Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held at a university in Chechnya which he said was attacked by a drone on 29 October, and had been killed in the ...

More than 150 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) may be held in Chechnya, Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Feb. 14.

MOSCOW, Sept. 12 -- The broken and burned bodies of children had just been pulled from the wreckage of a small-town school. All Russia was in mourning. And President Vladimir Putin was quietly furious ...

SOCHI, Russia -- Natasha Yaroslavtseva's son Sasha hanged himself almost a year ago. He was 21, and just back from the war in Chechnya. Back to Sochi, the famous and now run-down Soviet-era resort on ...