Russian soldiers pick their way through Grozny’s devastated landscape. By Thomas de Waal July 25, 2002 Islamic fundamentalism in Chechnya is a much misunderstood problem. It exists — but only ...

On June 19, 2025, in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, @iles_hasanov shared a video of a dramatic roadside encounter. In the video, ...

A Chechen man walks across a square at the Presidential Palace in Grozny in January 1996. Russia heavily bombed Chechnya during its 1994-96 war there.

Provides an overview of Chechnya, ... 2000 - Russian troops capture Grozny; much of the city is razed. Between 25,000-200,000 civilians and combatants are killed in the war.

On June 1, 2024, a Utair plane flying from Antalya to Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, nearly landed on an unfinished runway. The Grozny airport administration stated that the pilot went around for a ...

GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years. He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a relatively sheltered life near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...

Security forces in Grozny told Radio Free Europe reporter Liz Fuller that the militants were from a nearby region of Chechnya. The militants, they said, put on Chechen security services uniforms ...

Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR A view of downtown Grozny, Chechnya, October 2009. Moscow has poured billions of dollars into the reconstruction of the cities and towns it destroyed.

Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did that twice in Chechnya in the 1990s. Is a repeat likely in Ukraine today?