A reconstruction project in Grozny (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) August 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The widow of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the secessionist Chechen Republic-Ichkeria, has been named ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

The Kremlin hurled new demands at breakaway Chechnya on Wednesday even as its president released more Russian captives in the hope of averting a military crackdown. Moscow served notice it was still ...

When Chechnya declared independence, Dudayev's forces captured roughly 80 percent of Soviet military equipment in the republic, an estimated 42,000 firearms, 740 anti-tank weapons and 200,000 hand ...

This is an installment from our on-going series on the adventures of American diplomats and the people they monitor. The button below will take you to another random episode. A State Department ...

The Russian decision to destroy the Chechen Air Force in December 1994 was among the most successful episodes of the first Chechen War. The operation to destroy Chechnya’s air forces in December 1994 ...

A son of the late Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev has been fined for possessing a forged Lithuanian passport. A court in Lithuania's second-largest city, Kaunas, said Degi Dudayev had been fined 3,250 ...

Islamic fundamentalism in Chechnya is a much misunderstood problem. It exists — but only as a consequence of the war between Chechens and Moscow. Both Russians and hard-line fighters have an interest ...

ESTONIA: Some Chechen rebels are remembered fondly... far from their native land, as Daniel McLaughlin found recently in Tartu, Estonia This sleepy university town feels far removed from Russia's ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - On the night of September 7 Vakha Ibragimov, former close associate of first president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Jokhar Dudayev, was killed in Baku. As ...

FeatureUnder Ukrainian command, the Dzhokhar-Dudayev battalion is confronting the Russian army in the Donbas, with the aim of weakening Moscow and the hope of reviving Ichkeria, the independent ...