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The end of the turbulent 1990s saw the second year of Putin as president of the country, the first cooperation with NATO and a tragic terrorist...

A group of Chechen fighters called the "Kadyrovtsy" killed badly wounded Russian troops rather than treat or evacuate them.

The current Russo-Ukrainian War is frequently called “Putin’s war” by western media. Is this correct? Who is actually wa...

April 12, 2014, started out as just another typical day for the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk. At 9 a.m., a dark green truck surrounded by several

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was confronted by Armenian protesters during a visit to Uruguay on April 23, using the opportunity to flash a

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 the Russian state conducted two bloody wars against the small nation of Chechnya. The first, from 1994-6, ended with a peace treaty following the defeat of Russia’s attempt to smash the Chechen national movement. The second, which began with a Russian invasion after October 1999 and ended with Russia declaring the victory of its “counter terrorism operation” in 2009, facilitated Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and was important to consolidating his r...

Ihor Zhdanov, Information Defence Project, Open Policy Foundation

Ukrainian intelligence published audio online of a call it said was allegedly between a Russian soldier and his wife.

Hysterical state media is whipping up a whirlwind of anger that renders peace less likely

Funeral services have been held for Russian ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died this week at the age of 75 after a prolonged illness.