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 ...

With mounting fears of urban warfare as Russian forces advance toward the outskirts of Kyiv, analysts are beginning to draw lessons from President Vladimir Putin’s brutal tactics in his first siege of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Did Chechen rebels massacre a column of Russian soldiers that had moved into downtown Grozny? That depends who you ask.

Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected president of Chechnya in 1991. Under Dudayev, Chechnya promptly -- and unilaterally -- seceded from the Russian Federation. Over the ...

After Grozny’s December 4 gun attack, unidentified men retaliated by burning down the homes of the militants’ families, apparently fulfilling a threat by Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government ...

Fresh Russian ground troops were hurled into Grozny offensive Tuesday as Moscow stepped up its drive to destroy rebel forces and capture the devastated Chechen capital. Russian special forces moved ...

Almost 20 years to the day since then Russian President Boris Yeltsin sent Russian troops into Chechnya to "restore constitutional order," Chechen militants have launched a major operation in Grozny.

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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 ...