It was of course the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, at the end of the original Thirty Years’ war (1618-48) that enshrined the inviolate rights of all states, regardless of size. It was this and ...
It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia expected ...