THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his ...

A survivor of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, hit by a Russian missile, recalls an explosion near her leg as the plane ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following ...

The clearing of 37.5 hectares of the Sunzha reservoir in the city of Grozny in the Chechen Republic has been completed. The Federal Agency for Water Resources allocated 114.6 million rubles for the ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Russia on Sunday of firing at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet before it ...

Russia's state-run news agency and other outlets say a passenger plane crashed in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

Grozny - the destination - is the capital of the Chechnya republic, a Russian region controlled by Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov which regularly sends troops to fight in the war against Ukraine.

FlyDubai, a United Arab Emirates-based budget airline, has suspended flights to two Russian cities following this week's ...

The plane was flying from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, ...

A minister says all the survivors "heard blast sounds" over Grozny before the plane was diverted to Kazakhstan.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan after diverting from Grozny due to reported Ukrainian drone attacks and ...

Russia’s state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing. The Kazakh authorities said that at least 29 people survived.