Warplanes fired rockets into the capital of the rebellious republic of Chechnya early today as Russian troops fought their way toward the city, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. There were no ...

“Every wall, every gate, every street has their signs of war in Grozny.” Like hundreds of other members of the Virtual Grozny Russian-language forum, Natasha Raslambekova lived in Chechnya's capital ...

Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport on Tuesday, hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the breakaway republic to end its civil war within two days or face direct ...

Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected president of Chechnya in 1991. Under Dudayev, Chechnya promptly -- and unilaterally -- seceded from the Russian Federation. Over the ...

Key point: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in the eyes of many Russians ...

One of our RFE/RL colleagues, Aslan Doukaev, the director of the North Caucasus Service, is featured on the BBC World Service's excellent "Witness" program. Doukaev is speaking about his first-hand ...

MOSCOW — After two days of fighting in the streets of Grozny, the Russian military conceded last night that its troops were meeting strong opposition as they struggled to seize control of the Chechen ...

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 ...

Did Chechen rebels massacre a column of Russian soldiers that had moved into downtown Grozny? That depends who you ask. Around midnight on Dec. 15, both the Associated Press and Reuters moved stories ...