His notoriety attracted new fighters to the movement ... Though he was named vice president of the Chechen rebel movement in June 2006, Basayev was often at odds with its moderate figures ...

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a rebel commander during the 1999-2009 ... a car bomb in Kiev killed Ali Timayev, a Chechen fighter with Georgian citizenship. Ukraine has also accused Russia of ...

NALCHIK, Russia -- A Chechen rebel has been sentenced to life in prison for numerous crimes, including torture and killing Russian servicemen. Salaudin Temirbulatov was convicted of killing ...

GROZNY, November 15. /TASS/. Over 20,000 Chechen fighters have fought in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s special military operation and 9,000 of them are currently on the frontline ...

Two leading Chechen rebels have been arrested in connection with the murder of three British engineers in 1998. The three Britons and a New Zealander were installing a mobile phone system in the ...

TASS/. Soldiers from Russia’s Chechen Republic have launched an attack on a plant in Mariupol, Chechnya’s head Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram channel on Saturday. "The fighters of the ...

NAZRAN, Russia -- The Russian intelligence service has blamed Chechen rebels for an explosion that killed a high-ranking official. The explosion tore ripped through a television studio in the ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels ...

Importantly, Kadyrov's people fight for Putin, but there are also Chechen volunteers on the Ukrainian side. It is there that fighters who disagree with Moscow's policies fight. The Armed Forces of ...

The key to the prisoner deal was freeing Vadim Krasikov, who gunned down a Chechen rebel leader in broad daylight in a public park in the heart of Berlin in 2019. The 58-year-old former special ...

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