Russia’s BMPT-72 “Terminator-2” was built to protect tanks in cities, but limited numbers and flaws have exposed its ...

- 'State within a state' - Kadyrov, who has ruled Chechnya since 2007, says that tight security is necessary to stamp out the possibility of a jihadist resurgence. Two wars against Russia in the 1990s ...

The death of the notorious Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov could spark an explosion of violence and chaos across southern Russia that threatens Vladimir Putin himself, according to regional experts and ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...