His Uncle Arbi was a role model for Movsar Barayev, the 25-year-old leader of the Chechen rebels who was killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev, leader ...

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 -- A Chechen separatist leader who briefly served as president of the breakaway Russian republic in the mid-1990s was killed Friday in Qatar by an explosion that ripped through his car ...

MOSCOW, June 15 -- Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev was behind a suicide bombing two years ago that killed 24 officers and wounded 80 more, Russian authorities in the southwestern republic said Saturday.

MOSCOW, Dec. 25 -- A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison a Chechen rebel leader who led a raid that killed 78 people, including several civilians. Salman Raduyev was charged with ...

MOSCOW, April 19 -- After years of pursuit, Russian forces in recent weeks have killed or captured several leaders in the Chechen separatist movement that has defied Russian rule for the past decade, ...

Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...

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