For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Russian and Ukrainian soldiers will eventually largely lay down their arms, but as the Soviet Afghanistan War shows, ...

Ivanishin, who was reported to have denied all the charges, will serve his sentence in a maximum security facility ...

A former Russian commander who criticised Moscow's military leadership in Ukraine was sentenced to five years in prison on ...

Adam Kadyrov, 17, is in charge of Chechnya's internal affairs ministry, which oversees police and local security forces in ...

A Russian military court sentenced a soldier to 15 years in prison for voluntarily surrendering to Ukraine, Moscow’s first such prosecution, according to state outlets.

Roman Ivanishin has been accused of surrendering himself to Ukraine and telling other soldiers to ditch the army - although ...

According to Russian news media, a military court found a former Russian commander who had criticized Moscow's military ...

“A survey of Russian court records by the independent ... Their burden could grow heavier if returning Chechen soldiers, whom Moscow has deployed extensively in Ukraine, choose to revisit ...

April 8 (Reuters) - A man wielding a knife was killed after attacking a police station in Chechnya on Tuesday, along with one of the station's officers in the Russian Caucasus region, officials said.

Kadyrov sent Chechen men to fight alongside Russian soldiers in the now more than three-year-old war in Ukraine that Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour. In comments ...