The Kremlin is reportedly scrambling to find a successor to Ramzan Kadyrov following reports that the Chechen leader has been ...

In 1991, the newly elected president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CHRI), Dzhokhar Dudayev, announced his secession ...

According to Dudayev, the video footage shows patches related to a Chechen regiment, but Chechen forces do not wear fatigues shown in the video GROZNY, April 12. /TASS/. The video footage ...

There are additional Russian contingents, including the predominantly Chechen Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur battalions, ...

Dudayev offers talks on Chechnya Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev offered Thursday to begin unconditional negotiations with Moscow at any level, the Interfax news agency reported, but Russian ...

MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Moscow has conveyed its disapproval to Ankara via diplomatic channels over the naming of a park in a Turkish city after Dzhokhar Dudayev, the leader of Chechen ...

Elections in Chechnya propelled a pro-independence fighter pilot, Jokhar Dudayev, to power. Tension grew with Moscow and, by 1994, conflict broke out. Sebastian Smith, who reported from Chechnya ...

In 1991, the President of Chechnya, Dzhokhar Dudayev, declared independence—but Moscow pushed back on it out of fear that it could inspire other provinces to break from Russia. In 1994 ...