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

The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Quote: "For comparison, the Russians had lost 6,000 people over the entire period of the Second Chechen War. In other words, in January, the Russians had more deaths in Pokrovsk alone than in the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rediance has acquired Chechen director Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s documentary Imago, ahead of its world premiere at ...

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?

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rediance has acquired Chechen director Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s hybrid documentary Imago, ahead of its world premiere ...