The tragic history of trauma and repression in Chechnya must be a warning for those who want to abandon Ukraine.

After President Boris Yeltsin’s controversial reelection in 1996 for a second and final term, the increasingly ailing leader was preoccupied with the question of succession, looking for someone who ...

Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Premier Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed a troublesome member of the Politburo, Boris Yeltsin. Ironically, Yeltsin found himself in Gorbachev ... His role in ...

Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to Poland, he honoured the more than 20,000 Polish ...

Vladimir Putin has tried to keep Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region, under Russia's control ever since the collapse of ...

Chechnya’s head Ramzan Kadyrov has commented ... Boris Nemtsov, Russia’s former deputy prime minister under then-President Boris Yeltsin, co-chairman of the Parnas party and lawmaker from ...

Over the past several years the share of Russians who tend to make negative comments on Boris Yeltsin’s ... following negative aspects of Yeltsin’s rule: the Chechen war (63% in contrast ...

Around 30 Western diplomats including ambassadors gathered Thursday on a bridge next to the Kremlin on the spot where ...