For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. Since Russia launched its ...

Maxine Peake pays homage to slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Words of War. Read our review of this simplistic biopic.

The film is an homage to Anna Politkovskaya, indomitable reporter covering the Second Chechen War in the late 1990s and early ...

which sparked the second Chechen war. Later that year, he fled to Qatar. Despite his exile in the Persian Gulf, Russia says Yandarbiev helped orchestrate the October 2002 theater siege in which ...

doughty and dutiful in following the career of Politkovskaya from the onset of her reporting on the Second Chechen War to her assassination on Oct. 7, 2006 — Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday.

At the end of 1999, the new man in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, launched the second Chechen war, sent in Russian troops, and declared direct rule over Chechnya. What was Putin’s motive?

doughty and dutiful in following the career of Politkovskaya from the onset of her reporting on the Second Chechen War to her assassination on Oct. 7, 2006 — Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday.