The Chechen capital Grozny and Mariupol in the Russian-annexed Donetsk region of Ukraine have been “twinned” by a formal agreement, signed during the Chechen officials’ working visit to the Donbas.

MOSCOW -- The bloody siege of Grozny intensified yesterday when Chechen rebels surrounded as many as 7,000 Russian troops who had been lured into the center of the devastated city and began to bombard ...

Boris Yeltsin (right) and Aslan Maskhadov at peace talks in the Kremlin on August 18, 1996 (ITAR-TASS) PRAGUE, August 30, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- On August 6, 1996, as OSCE Grozny Mission head Tim Guldimann ...

GROZNY, Russia — Kadijat Zelinhanova was an unlikely messenger in a very unlikely meeting between Chechen guerrillas and Russian troops. Her floral skirt rustled in the summer breeze as she scurried ...

Grozny Presidental Palace - Outside Presidental Palace, January 1995. The First Battle of Grozny was the Russian Army's invasion and subsequent conquest of the Chechen capital, Grozny, during the ...

On the last day of 1994, just over two weeks after Moscow began its first war against separatists in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya, Russian forces launched their first major assault on the ...

Russian troops sealed off the Chechen capital Grozny early today to prevent incidents ahead of the fifth anniversary of a crucial… Russian troops sealed off the Chechen capital Grozny early today to ...

Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, believes that Russia wants to turn Kharkiv into ruins. He wrote about it on his Twitter. "Kharkiv. 175 days of horror. Daily ...