Kadyrov has ruled the Muslim-majority federal republic since 2007 and enjoys "wide leeway from Putin to run Chechnya as his ...

Now in the midst of a second brutal Russo-Chechen war, one must wonder why Russia is so vehement in ... tragic the crisis in Chechnya has become - how such turmoil and death have resulted from such a ...

The swirling rumors of Ramzan Kadyrov’s grave illness have injected a dose of uncertainty into the Kremlin’s already complex ...

The Chechen leader is said to be terminally ill, raising the prospect that the ‘balance of terror’ in the Caucasus will be ...

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 in Chechnya ... hundreds of civilian deaths, gruesome ...

Because of its wishful denial of the possibility of Russia’s defeat, the West now confronts the possibility of a Ukrainian ...

Reports that Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov ... due to his contributions to the war effort, including the recruitment of volunteers". The loss of the "Kremlin's loyal foot soldier ...

This is why Kadyrov’s likely death matters so much. Stability in Chechnya was bought after the war through both massive federal subsidies — to buy off Kadyrov and the rest of the Chechen elite ...