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

In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once ...

Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with a total of 15 reactors, including Zaporizhzhia, which has been under Russian ...

VLADIMIR Putin’s soldiers have reportedly been left with never-before-seen lung poisoning after crawling through a 10-mile ...

then the fighters of the first Chechen war. And Putin started building the narrative of all of this being the continuation of one great war, the war which gives legitimacy to the Soviet Union and ...

Amnesty’s goal was to serve as an advocate for victims and prisoners of conscience, and to stand apart from the polarized ...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.

Both Ukraine and Russia have deployed foreign fighters in the war, with Kyiv openly recruiting ... on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the wars in Chechnya and Georgia, and the 2004 Beslan hostage ...