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

The Kadyrov family has been able to successfully muster a private army of what local authorities claim to be 70,000 Chechen fighters loyal to the warlord. Chechen militants and police officers ...

"He’d become a general in the Soviet army, but he also had become a Chechen nationalist," De Waal said. "He was very Soviet in his mentality as well as Chechen. He would give these long ...

Two of the devices were shot down, while the third hit the Akhmat-Grozny OMON base, which reportedly houses units of the Chechen leader’s private army. Footage posted on Russian Telegram ...

Drones attacked the city of Grozny in Chechnya on the morning of 15 December, hitting a building. [The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation; the ...

Russian aviation authorities did not allow the plane to land in any of the multiple airports nearby, forcing the pilots to ...

On Thursday, December 12, the head of the Chechen Republic of the russian federation, Ramzan Kadyrov, reported another drone attack on the building of a special forces police regiment in the city of ...

Their tough and aggressive attitude was soon overshadowed by their presence online with many labelling the Chechen army as a mockery of Putin's well oiled military machine. The Security Service of ...