But in not giving Aliyev satisfaction, Putin risks alienating a key ally. A freeze in Azerbaijani-Russian relations could ...

In trying to dissuade anyone from noting a “Chechen trace” in the events in Uzbekistan, Kadyrov made the connection even more ...

Troops under the command of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov were embroiled in the war from the earliest days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, with its forces implicated in many ...

On Thursday, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, questioned whether forces within the territory had opened fire on the civilian jet and blamed Ukrainian drones above Chechnya’s capital Grozny at the ...

THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his trigger-happy cosplay soldiers. Disturbed chief Kadyrov, 48, has ruled over ...

On Thursday, Chechen Prime Minister Hasan Khakimov announced that, at the request of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, all families of the deceased and injured would receive financial aid and "all ...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Russian air defence officials could very possibly have struck an Azerbaijani passenger jet over Chechnya after panicking during a Ukrainian drone attack, analysts and experts ...

The Embraer E190 airliner was en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechen republic, ruled by Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Passengers ...

Chechnya is a region of Russia headed by close Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov. It has been under regular attacks from Ukraine in recent weeks. Speculation in the aftermath of the crash attributed ...

At the time the plane had been seeking to land as scheduled in Grozny in Chechnya, of which it is capital, a Russian region headed by close Vladimir Putin warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, which has been ...