The raid of the Sputnik offices comes amid rising tensions between Moscow and Baku after the deaths of two ethnic ...

Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry told local media that seven people linked to a Kremlin-funded media outlet in Baku have been ...

Provides an overview of Chechnya, ... Since 2003 the capital, Grozny, has been rebuilt from scratch after being destroyed in the two wars against Russia. Related topics. Chechnya; ...

To many casual Russia watchers out there, it might seem that the recent military confrontation between Iran and Israel went ...

ACHKHOI-MARTAN, Russia -- At the side of a road near this town in west-central Chechnya, Russian soldiers sitting atop a broken-down armored car scan the horizon nervously. The soldiers ride on ...

The Embraer 190 with 67 passengers and crew was flying from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia, when it crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people.

The wounds of the 1944 deportation still fester in Chechnya and beyond. The tragic history of trauma and repression in Chechnya must be a warning for those who want to abandon the Ukrainian people.

The flight, which had originated in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, crashed in Kazakhstan, across the Caspian Sea from Chechnya. Thirty-eight people died, while 29 survived with injuries ...

Chechnya is close to Ukraine and the ongoing war with Russia. Rosaviatsia also reported that dense fog in the area of Grozny airport meant there was no visibility at an altitude of about 1,600 feet.

On the morning of July 15, 2009, the prominent activist and investigator for the Memorial human rights group Natalya Estemirova was abducted from her home in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s ...