Magomed Daudov (The Inner Circle): As the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, Daudov (known as “Lord”) manages the internal security apparatus. He represents the continuity of the current system but ...

Persistent reports about the Chechen leader’s health are resurfacing at a moment of vulnerability for the Kremlin.

Moscow and Chechnya officials are preparing for leadership changes amid uncertainties surrounding Ramzan Kadyrov's health, as ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...

THE son of Vladimir Putin’s chief wardog has been left “hardly recognisable” following a high-speed car crash, according to ...

They spent their childhoods counting victims, listening to detonations and military helicopters, hearing stories of horrors, and speaking their first words as refugees. December 2025 marked 30 years ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...