Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

A memorial plaque honoring the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger plane crash, which occurred on the ...

Russia has published a festive video of Santa Claus becoming a victim of Russian air defence against the backdrop of the tragic crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in Grozny, with growing ...

2001-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Kislovodsk, Russia-- As a young Chechen man, Anzor Ismailov could have been anywhere on a recent sunny afternoon. He could have been hiding from Russian troops in a makeshift ...

GROZNY, Russia – Even during the World Cup, which brought hordes of foreigners to Russia, the capital of Chechnya remained well off the beaten path for most travelers. The Grozny airport doesn't even ...

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 ...

A suspected Ukrainian drone attack rocked the Chechen capital, Grozny, early on December 5 just hours after Ukrainian negotiators met with US officials in Florida seeking details from a meeting at the ...

Uneven performance in Ukraine suggests that Russia’s costly military modernization leaves much to be desired. Of its tactics in urban warfare, past might be prologue. Russia may reprise its brutal ...

The Russian army has scored a significant victory by capturing Grozny and by inflicting heavy casualties on the rebels. Encouraged by this victory, and excited by the prospect of achieving a decisive ...

“Every wall, every gate, every street has their signs of war in Grozny.” Like hundreds of other members of the Virtual Grozny Russian-language forum, Natasha Raslambekova lived in Chechnya's capital ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency issued a bulletin warning airlines against flying over western Russia due to the risk of ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will not attend the informal summit of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States ...