Israeli soccer players are scheduled to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of a synagogue in Grozny in the predominantly ... then destroyed during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, according ...

At least 70,000 civilians were killed; the capital, Grozny, was completely ... the new provincial president. No. Chechnya had been largely destroyed by war, with its roads and power plants and ...

So far, Mr Putin has not given the order to inflict the kind of damage that Russian forces brought down on Grozny ... I covered the first Chechen war when it started in the winter of 1994-1995.

The T-80 main battle tank (MBT ... its baptism by fire in the First Chechen War. The tank incurred a mixed performance record during the catastrophic siege of Grozny, with ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war ... Grozny and hitting civilian areas in outlying villages in ...

After losing the first and winning the second Chechen War, Russia has consolidated its hold over the region, home to 1.5 million people, with the help of Kadyrov's father, Akhmat, and loyalist ...

Three elderly people have been detained in Chechnya on suspicion ... of an "all-Russian battle against the paranormal", but Kavkazsky-Uzel recalls that, during the first phase of the anti-sorcery ...

Law enforcers blocked the buildings, and a counterterrorism operation was launched in downtown Grozny ... since the battle phase of the second war against Islamist separatists in Chechnya came ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war ... Grozny and hitting civilian areas in outlying villages in ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic and a key loyalist ... the Russian military threatened to destroy what’s left of Grozny with strategic bombers and ballistic missiles ...