The republic of Chechnya’s financial dependence on the Russian federal government remains the highest in the country, with ...

Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been ...

Despite Israel’s high-precision strikes, experts warn that only a full-scale invasion or direct U.S. military involvement could dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and topple its regime.

In policy circles, many Europeans began to see Meloni as a model for how the far right might be tamed. As far-right parties gained traction in Austria, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, and beyond in ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanians cast ballots Sunday in a parliamentary election sandwiched between a two-round presidential race, the first of which has plunged the European Union and NATO member ...

Russian Army HQ Burns Down in Chechnya, Saboteurs Claim Published Jan 12, 2024 at 7:38 AM EST Updated Jan 12, 2024 at 5:52 PM EST By Giulia Carbonaro ...

COMIC: How a brutal dictatorship rose in Chechnya, and what my family had to do to survive it By Anthony Del Col , Nik Virella , and Josh Adams Josh Adams Dec 28, 2023, 8:30 PM PT ...

Ruthless rise to power Ramzan Kadyrov’s late father, Akhmat Kadyrov, was a mufti, or Islamic legal scholar, in Chechnya in the 1990s. He and his son Ramzan were also staunch supporters of ...

But Mr Putin is nevertheless said to begrudge what he regards as the alliance’s gradual sprawl eastwards, which saw ex-Soviet satellites Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join in 1999, followed ...

An award-winning Russian investigative journalist is in hospital after being badly beaten by armed assailants during a trip to Chechnya, her newspaper and a rights group said.

In Chechnya, Moscow also “pioneered” its use of ballistic missiles on civilian areas. On October 21, 1999, they hit an outdoor market, a maternity hospital and a mosque in Grozny, killing 118 ...

The Russian leader later installed Ramzan Kadyrov as Chechnya’s strongman. He has since ruthlessly suppressed all opposition, and never tires of declaring his ferocious loyalty to Putin.