As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has ...
This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...
(Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the bombing of the Boston Marathon have been identified as Chechens. The motives for the attack are not clear. Their home region in southern ...
MOSCOW, March 9 -- Early last month, gunmen pulled alongside the car of Maj. Gen. Magomed Omarov, a deputy interior minister of Dagestan, a Russian republic squeezed between Chechnya and the Caspian ...
More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...
Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...
Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist... Russian state media ...