As the Second Chechen War enters its sixth year, there is a pressing need to create an international commission to look into the important unanswered question of how it began.

Mr. Putin appears to be caught in the same dilemma, between seizing as much as possible and legitimizing at least part of ...

As rebels in the Chechen Republic make their second bid for independence and the Russian response grows more punishing, Muratov sends Anna to the capital city of Grozny to write about what she ...

When Chechen Islamist separatist rebels take control of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theater in October 2002, holding over 900 audience members hostage, they demand Anna as their negotiating intermediary.

The Russian republic of Chechnya in the North Caucasus lives according to its own rules. An undisclosed illness appears to be forcing the region's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, to pass on his power – by ...

Former President Bill Clinton hoped to coax Putin into the international democratic order, remaining silent on high civilian casualties in Putin’s Second Chechen War.