Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov’s ailing health and lack of a succession plan may create opportunities for terrorist and ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that he named his teenage son, who was shown beating a prisoner in custody last ...

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

FOR A SMALL territory of 1.5m people, Chechnya has played a big role in shaping modern Russia. The Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s were the only large conflicts, among those that ...

Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a ...

Russian media reports that Eduard Ulman, captain of the special forces of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Russia (GRU), accused of shooting civilians in Chechnya, has been killed in Ukraine.

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

which have enriched the Chechen leader and his inner circle. Kadyrov is both "feared and venerated throughout Russia". And since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ...

As well as ceding near complete control of the territory to Kadyrov, Putin has provided huge economic subsidies to the region, which have enriched the Chechen leader and his inner circle. Kadyrov is ...

He added that the nomination came after a request by the head of the university, which is located in Gudermes, a town in Chechnya. Russia's private educational institution provides professional ...

to the point of obtaining the recognitions of "Hero of Russia" and "Hero of Chechnya", also accumulating as medals the personal sanctions of the United States, Latvia, Great Britain, Poland and ...

The expert also explained how Chechen leaders use threats to ensure Putin does not desert the region. This includes the threat of jihadism causing chaos in Russia. He said: "After the recent ...