The idea that Western media can spread Russian propaganda and enable the Kremlin’s information warfare about the situation in ...

Adam Kadyrov, 17, is in charge of Chechnya's internal affairs ministry, which oversees police and local security forces in ...

Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...

Russian and Chechnya officials have held the first face-to-face talks since the start of the war in 1999. Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy to Chechnya met with a Chechen rebel representative ...

Doku Umarov, the current president, is the only leading figure ... actor in the Soviet Union before he joined the first Chechen war of independence. Ilyas Akhmadov. The separatist foreign minister ...

During World War II, dictator Josef Stalin ordered Chechens deported en masse to Kazakhstan. Many died; rest returned home in 1950s, after Stalin's death. CURRENT CONFLICT: Chechen President ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a news conference ... months and years of the Chechen war Russia had never stopped financing the Chechen Republic. “We regularly paid pensions and ...

Voters in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya go to the polls Sunday ... Nations a leading role in the governance of post-war Iraq. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...