Marsalek, 45, who holds eight passports, is thought to be hiding out in Russia after assuming the identity of an Orthodox ...

Bukkvoll, a Norwegian defense analyst, uses a vast range of sources to put together a comprehensive history of Soviet and Russian special forces, known as spetsnaz ... notably in Chechnya. And they ...

it is believed that in the 1990s he fought in Chechnya as a supervising officer in the Spetsnaz, the special forces of Russia’s military intelligence service, known as the GRU. When he changed ...

In 2004, during the raging war in Chechnya, the European Parliament raised a question about recognising this tragedy as genocide. The initiative was not successful and the genocide was not ...

Telegram has been blocked in Russia's Dagestan and Chechnya regions due to concerns about its potential use by enemies. The decision, made at the federal level, follows a rise in militant Islamist ...

Afghan War, Spetsnaz soldiers needed more than standard steel helmets to survive. The answer? The Altyn helmet—titanium armor ...

Rashevska soon found out that her husband, a native of Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, was alive and being held captive in Chechnya along with several other Ukrainian prisoners of ...

The messaging service Telegram was blocked in the Russian republics of Dagestan and Chechnya at the weekend. This was reported by the Russian state news agency Tass, which added that the move was ...

Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up today at a religious ceremony in Chechnya, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens of others in the second major attack in the breakaway ...