Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

A new school textbook introduced in Moscow on Monday claims Russia was "forced" to send soldiers into Ukraine in 2022, ...

As with his earlier war against Chechnya, Putin’s obduracy turned an opening military fiasco into a brutal war of attrition which Russia’s resources could win at a huge price. But Putin’s ...

The BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent on books that explain Putin's Russia. She'll discuss her ... but Politkovskaya had documented the same in Chechnya, years earlier. A journalist of immense ...

The following is an excerpt from Mark Galeotti's book, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to ... The evolution of Russia's special forces has been shaped by an emphasis on mass war and the primacy ...

tactical mistakes and terrified teenagers who had not been told they were going to war - as well as resistance as fierce as anything the Chechens offered in 1995. In Chechnya, Russia's answer was ...