After President Boris Yeltsin’s controversial reelection in 1996 for a second and final term, the increasingly ailing leader was preoccupied with the question of succession, looking for someone who ...

Chechnya's powerful leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has launched a scathing attack on two of Vladimir Putin's most trusted and senior officials. The tirade was aimed at Alexander Bastrykin, the head of ...

The Akhmat special forces soldiers, together with other units, took control of the city of Suju in the Kursk region and ...

Vladimir Putin’s brutal warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has vanished from public view, with reports claiming he is seriously ill with pancreatic necrosis. The feared Chechen leader, long seen as Putin ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the republic since 2007, said he wants to remain in power for life. VOA Russian spoke to regional experts who believe that despite this being illegal ...

Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's oppressive regime. After losing the first and winning ...

In response to the incident, Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov reported that ... proving highly effective on the battlefield. Kadyrov, a staunch Putin ally, has dispatched thousands of troops to assist ...

Many countries have their worst showing in more than a decade in an index that serves as a barometer of public sector ...