More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...
Spin Ghul’s desire for jihad started when he was a child in Saudi Arabia. From his elementary school days, he was determined to become a religious soldier.
The Armchair Historian on MSN

Rise of Putin: The Second Chechen War

In the aftermath of chaos and collapse following the Soviet Union's fall, Russia stood on the brink. Amid this instability, a little-known former KGB officer emerged from the shadows. This episode ...
MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (UNHCR) - The conflict in the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya should be resolved through political means, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers said during a visit to camps for ...
How Chechen Terror Evolved: The Internet Foreign Policy's Paul Quinn-Judge explains "the dramatic speed with which the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus is ...
Maxine Peake's Words of War has been quietly added to a UK streaming subscription service, following a very brief stint in ...
The writer, director, editor and narrator of "Memory," Vladlena Sandu, grew up in '90s Chechnya. War was on her doorstep, and often not only there, but inside her childhood home, with its boots under ...
The writer, director, editor and narrator of “Memory,” Vladlena Sandu, grew up in ’90s Chechnya. War was on her doorstep, and often not only there, but inside her childhood home, with its boots under ...