But in 1999, after Mr Putin launched the second Chechen war to restore Russian control over the break away republic, the Kadyrovs changed sides. Akhmad was subsequently installed as the pro ...

Moscow plans to eventually supply as much as 55 billion cubic metres per year to help Tehran tackle an energy shortage ...

Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident." ...

The Russian government has cautioned against promoting "hypotheses" about the cause of the crash of a Russia-bound passenger ...

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a ...

The airspace above Grozny, the capital city of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, was only closed after the plane was ...

the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya. An official Kremlin statement issued Saturday said that air defense systems were firing near Grozny airport as the airliner “repeatedly ...

Ukrainian drones had previously attacked Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, and other regions in the ...

The Kremlin has declined to state that Russian forces were responsible for downing the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 on ...

The track record tells you what Moscow’s word is worth on the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.

Moscow officials have not addressed statements from aviation experts who blamed the crash on Russian air defenses responding ...

Ukrainian drones had previously attacked Grozny, the provincial capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, and other regions in the country’s North Caucasus. An official in Chechnya said ...