Margolin takes on the more recent rise and fall of Wagner, the private Russian military force. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former petty crook and caterer in St. Petersburg, used his association with ...
Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.
It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia ...
For Vladimir Putin, the Cold War never ended. Since 1999, he has ruled Russia with iron hand beginning with the role of Boris ...
was alive and being held captive in Chechnya along with several other Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs). A Ukrainian soldier who was released in a prisoner swap in June 2023 told Rashevska that he ...
The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a ...
[The Second Chechen War (1999–2009) was an armed conflict between Russia and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. It resulted in Russia regaining control over Chechnya and the establishment of a ...