“Every wall, every gate, every street has their signs of war in Grozny.” Like hundreds of other members of the Virtual Grozny Russian-language forum, Natasha Raslambekova lived in Chechnya's capital ...

On New Year’s Eve 1994, Grozny became the epicenter of a brutal confrontation as Russian forces entered the city under a ...

Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected president of Chechnya in 1991. Under Dudayev, Chechnya promptly -- and unilaterally -- seceded from the Russian Federation. Over the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in ...

Russia’s first campaign in Grozny (1994–1996) exposed major weaknesses in urban warfare tactics and equipment, revealing the ...

Key point: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in the eyes of many Russians ...

Did Chechen rebels massacre a column of Russian soldiers that had moved into downtown Grozny? That depends who you ask. Around midnight on Dec. 15, both the Associated Press and Reuters moved stories ...

Uneven performance in Ukraine suggests that Russia’s costly military modernization leaves much to be desired. Of its tactics in urban warfare, past might be prologue. Russia may reprise its brutal ...