"The Second Chechen War for the Russians for the entire period — 6,000 dead," he said. "That is, under Pokrovsk alone in January the Russians have more dead than in the entire Second Chechen War ...

The two men barely pay attention. They’ve heard it all before, and know they can’t change much. Benor is a veteran of the ...

For Vladimir Putin, the Cold War never ended. Since 1999, he has ruled Russia with iron hand beginning with the role of Boris Yesltsin’s prime minister and then soon as the country’s president. But ...

than its total losses in the Second Chechen War. Syrskyi previously claimed that 7,000 Russian soldiers were killed near Pokrovsk in January alone. Oleksiy Yukov, head of Black Tulip, leads ...

Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put in charge of a war in Chechnya. The bombings were blamed on ...

Military analysts consulted by researchers estimated that the list likely represents only 45% to 65% of Russia's total casualties.

Three years later, the second Russian aggression against Chechnya followed. During the war, which lasted until 2009, Yeltsin’s successor, Vladimir Putin, installed an authoritarian regime led by ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya ... and their 1977 Second Protocol, which governs ...