effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

“History repeats itself. We won the First Chechen War. They took their time, rebuilt their army while dividing us, and eventually, they won. They will try the same with Ukraine. You can’t ...

I distinctly recall being six or seven years old when I first heard ... more than 100,000 Chechen and Ingush deaths during the deportation. In 2004, during the raging war in Chechnya, the European ...

Here's where Chechnya is on a map. Google Maps Following the First Chechen War from 1994 to 1996, Chechnya gained independence from Russia. However, the Second Chechen war from 1999 to 2000 ...