Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe on March 25 gave a rousing assessment of Ukraine's desire to achieve an acceptable and lasting ...

Relations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov have soured in recent months, the ...

Russia's internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, has reportedly requested Google remove 47 VPNs from the Play Store. Some of the ...

Amnesty’s goal was to serve as an advocate for victims and prisoners of conscience, and to stand apart from the polarized ...

Before his 2023 death in a suspicious plane crash, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had built a sprawling, ...

Gideon Rachman Hello and welcome to The Rachman Review. I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about Russia and Vladimir Putin. My guests ...

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff recently claimed that the majority of people in Ukraine's Russian-occupied territories had ...

Some believe that they should erect stronger firewalls by refusing to join coalitions that include the far right to prevent its leaders from gaining political power. Others—for instance, Manfred Weber ...

Lebanon says three others killed in separate attack allegedly targeting Hezbollah operatives moving weapons; heavy Israeli strikes also reported in Syrian coastal city of Latakia ...

Russian leaders were intensely proud of having the largest tank fleet in the world for over fifty years. While the Red Army largely disintegrated in the early 1990s, the army sought to keep as many of ...