On June 19, 2025, in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, @iles_hasanov shared a video of a dramatic roadside encounter. In the video, ...

As hoods go, Grozny definitely qualifies as one of the meanest. Growing up during the Chechen war, young rappers like 27-year-old Yusup Nakhmudov, have seen friends blown apart by bombs. Others ...

The year 2010 is already well under way. Spring is not far off, but the centre of Grozny is still bathed in the New Year illuminations. It's about 9 in the evening and a friend from "Memorial" and ...

MOSCOW — Russian human rights workers estimate nearly 25,000 civilians have died during two months of fighting in the Chechen capital of Grozny, far more than the military deaths reported. The ...

The bloodshed in Grozny — where at least 10 militants and 10 police officers were killed — was an unwelcome reminder of the 1990s strife in Chechnya between Russian forces and separatist ...

Grozny’s mayor, Beslan Gantemirov — amnestied in 1999 from a Russian prison where he was serving six years for embezzling municipal reconstruction funds after the last Chechen war in the mid ...

Two days after the battles in Grozny between Chechen security personnel and militants claiming to act at the behest of Chechen insurgency wing commander Khamzat (Aslan Byutukayev), the North ...

Under his watch, Russian forces led sieges of the Chechen capital, Grozny, in 1999, as well as Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city, in 2016. In both cases, the result was the near-total ...

Meet Elza Duguyeva, a Chechen woman who roams the streets of Grozny with her children in search of aluminum to sell. I met her on Moscow Street. She was walking along nimbly, or as nimbly as her ...

Chechens staged a rally in the Russian city of Grozny in a highly scripted show of support for regional strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, a staunch backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin.