In an escalatory move, the US Senate is expediting the Sanctioning Russia Act 2026 containing a revised package of sanctions and tariffs to squeeze Moscow’s fin ...

We trace the long road that led Chechnya into open war with Russia, beginning with its deep historical roots and centuries of ...

Officials deny there is a fuel shortage and blame the situation on increased demand Gasoline has completely disappeared for the public in six Russian regions amid the country's fuel crisis, while in ...

In the fall of 2022, Seda Suleimanova fled Chechnya for St. Petersburg to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage, as her older sisters were. She was forcibly returned in August 2023 -- and ...

Russia’s strained wartime budget and the prospect of Ramzan Kadyrov’s succession make Chechnya’s future in Russia an open question. None of this means Chechnya is on the verge of revolt. But it does ...

Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...

Khamzat Chimaev warns his fight with Dagestan’s Nassourdine Imavov could spark major Dagestan–Chechnya drama, stirring huge MMA tension. Fans are always hyped about Dagestan vs. Chechnya fights. And ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against Ukraine following a drone strike echo a 2022 plot to infiltrate Kyiv and target President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former Ukrainian government official ...

While women are free to wear apparel with masculine accents in most countries, that is no longer the case in the Russian republic of Chechnya, where the government has banned apparel with “masculine ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...