His notoriety attracted new fighters to the movement ... a theater actor in the Soviet Union before he joined the first Chechen war of independence. Ilyas Akhmadov. The separatist foreign minister ...

After losing the first and winning the second Chechen War, Russia has consolidated its ... what local authorities claim to be 70,000 Chechen fighters loyal to the warlord. Chechen militants ...

Thousands of foreign fighters have joined the Ukrainian effort ... “History repeats itself. We won the First Chechen War. They took their time, rebuilt their army while dividing us, and ...

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a rebel commander during the 1999-2009 Chechen war, was shot in the head in ... a car bomb in Kiev killed Ali Timayev, a Chechen fighter with Georgian citizenship.

Fighters from the Chechen Republic have been successfully coping with their assigned missions since the first days of the special military operation in Ukraine, Kadyrov stressed. "In conclusion ...

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov stated that 70,000 Chechen fighters are ready to join the ... "This is the consolidation of the society that our first president, Hero of Russia Akhmat-Haji Kadyrov ...