effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

VLADIMIR Putin’s war dog has disappeared as reports claim he is seriously ill with pancreatic necrosis. Chechen warlord and ...

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A US move to impose financial sanctions on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov over ... Caucasus left devastated by war in the 1990s. Critics have also accused Mr Kadyrov of amassing vast personal ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump has a “solid” strategy to end the war in Ukraine within months ... NATO's military presence in the region. The first major incidence of sabotage of infrastructure ...

Ramzan Kadyrov is son of the first president of the Chechen Republic, Akhmat Kadyrov. Kadyrov Jr., who was fighting against Russian troops during the first Chechen war, has the suppression of ...

TASS/. The Ukrainian security service has filed war crimes charges against the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Ukraine’s security agency said on its Telegram channel that there was "irrefutable ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic and a key loyalist of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, condemned the leadership of Russia’s military in an eleven-minute audio clip posted ...

Yamadayev fought against Russia in the first Chechen war of 1994-96 ... the top national honour. Ramzan Kadyrov, who took over the job of Chechen leader from his father Akhmad who was assassinated ...