Chechen efforts to create new MSDs in the region appear to be succeeding. Kadyrov uses some brutally effective methods. Any groups that oppose him are largely eliminated as Kadyrov arranges to have ...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.

March 25, 2025: Twenty three years ago the Russian border troops encountered Chechen rebels using donkeys for transportation in the rugged Caucasus highlands everyone was operating in. The Russian ...

The Turkish relationship with Russia improved dramatically in 1995 when Russia stopped supporting the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and Turkey stopped supporting Chechen rebels. Since then, Turkey has ...

Fans of The Sopranosno doubt have their own pick for the series' finest episode, but one that tops the list more than any ...

The idea that Western media can spread Russian propaganda and enable the Kremlin’s information warfare about the situation in Ukraine has entered the mainstream. But some outlets have inadvertently ...

Two leading Chechen rebels have been arrested in connection with the murder of three British engineers in 1998. The three Britons and a New Zealander were installing a mobile phone system in the ...

Ukraine is now claiming that a third Tupolev Tu-22M3 may have also been targeted on the ground following another drone strike ...

The Sopranos season 3 episode, “Pine Barrens” is widely considered one of the greatest hours of TV of all time — and ...

The convictions of four journalists signal a broader strategy by Russian authorities to criminalise independent reporting ...