became well-known for supporting Russian soldiers against separatist insurgents during the Second Chechen War. In 2007, he ...

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

The Second Chechen War lasted for 10 years and ended with Chechnya being occupied by Russia and becoming one of its subjects. About Chechen wars Madiyev explained how they managed to win in the ...

Elections in Chechnya propelled a pro-independence fighter pilot, Jokhar Dudayev, to power. Tension grew with Moscow and, by ...

The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the ...

Now in the midst of a second brutal Russo-Chechen war, one must wonder why Russia is so vehement in preventing such a tiny, insignificant region from becoming independent. Unfortunately, pride is the ...

Although the Russian public had no appetite for the Second Chechen War, it rallied behind the soon-to-be President Putin in the fight against terrorism. Starting his fifth presidential term in ...

“It’s the end of the war,” Russia’s security chief declared. But only for a little while. Just five years after that ostensible peace was signed, a second Chechen war began, one that saw a ...

WASHINGTON — Launched by Moscow in 1999, the second Chechen war elevated the stature of Russia’s new and then little-known prime minister, a former intelligence officer named Vladimir Putin.

When Ivan volunteered to fight in the second Chechen war, he had scant understanding of what he would experience. Even now, he remains deeply troubled by his time there. Lack of supplies and ...

were blamed on Chechen separatists and thus helped spark the Second Chechen War. Years later, amid a career that included ...