Grozny has been transformed in recent years thanks to the efforts of the team of the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1994 Russian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles poured into the streets of Grozny with an assault expected to snuff out the self-declared Chechcen Republic of Ichkeria, as black ...

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MOSCOW — The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, seemed to blow up around 1:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. News about hundreds of insurgents occupying schools, kindergartens and other state buildings and ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in ...

Grozny already boasts one of the largest mosques in Europe. Now, the Chechen capital is also due to become home to a new synagogue. The foundation stone of the new Jewish place of worship is scheduled ...

The T-80 was blamed for the Chechen War disaster at Grozny, but the video argues the tank itself was not the real problem. It says rushed deployment and poorly prepared crews helped turn the assault ...

Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and Dresden. The ruins of Grozny, the war-scarred capital of Chechnya, have been compared to all three. Blackened, fissured and sad, for over a decade they have stood almost ...

While distributing humanitarian aid in Grozny in 2000, Czech journalist Petra Procházková conducted a wide range of interviews with women who wanted to describe to the outside world what life in ...