Big Dinosaur Egg Cache Found By Construction Crew, Scientists Claim
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Geologists in Russia's volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by on...
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Geologists in Russia's volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by on...
Reuters | Posted 04.19.2012
MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Seventeen police and at least seven insurgents were killed in four days of fighting on the border between the Chechnya an...
Reuters | Posted 02.20.2012
By Thomas Grove GROZNY, Russia, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Dagmein Khaseinova beams with pride recalling the day her Chechen villa...
Entertainment Weekly | Posted 12.14.2011
Talk about backtracking: after the Human Rights Watch publicly criticized Hilary Swank for appearing at the birthday party for notorious Chechen presi...
AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 12.13.2011
MOSCOW -- Hollywood celebrity Hilary Swank said she "deeply regrets" visiting a concert held on the birthday of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader, who...
AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 12.13.2011
MOSCOW — Hollywood celebrity Hilary Swank said she "deeply regrets" visiting a concert held on the birthday of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader...
AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 12.12.2011
MOSCOW — An international human rights watchdog lambasted an Oscar-winning actress and other Western celebrities on Wednesday for attending a co...
The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 12.10.2011
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he didn't want a fuss for his 35th birthday party but that didn't stop his friends from throwing a multimillion-dol...
AP | Posted 11.28.2011
MOSCOW -- Investigators say a powerful car bomb killed eight people, including an 11-year-old girl and a police officer, in Russia's volatile Dagestan...
AP | Posted 11.22.2011
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — Two car bombs killed a Russian policeman and wounded 60 other people in the capital of the violence-plagued republic of Da...
AP | Posted 10.31.2011
MOSCOW -- Russia's top investigative body says eight people including seven policeman have died after suicide bombings in the capital of Chechnya. A ...
Posted 09.18.2011
The Chechen government has banned the sale of Red Bull and other similar energy drinks throughout the Russian Federation republic, reports The Guardia...
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. With so many post-Cold War precedents, you'd think secession wouldn't be dirty word today.
Reuters | – | Posted 05.25.2011
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) -- The spiritual leaders of Muslim Chechnya have ordered that all couples who plan to marry prove they are HIV-negative, spar...
Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011
In February, I remember being impressed with how Dubai police handled the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas commander who got whacked by Mossad....
Thor Halvorssen | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 200,000 Chechens have died on Moscow's orders. The photographic evidence of mutilation, torture, electric shocks and eye-gouging are impossible to ignore, but the West remains indifferent.
Doug Bandow | Posted 05.25.2011
There can sometimes be a case for military intervention or use of drones. But the high costs of these tactics must be recognized and weighed. To reduce terrorism, Washington should do less, not more, abroad.
Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011
An independent Chechnya would be unstable and violent. But that is better than the savagery and atrocities that this terrible conflict continues to generate.
Diana Markosian | Posted 05.25.2011
It is a conflict with no end in sight as Russians and Chechen rebels continue fighting over land, religion, independence and political control.
Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011
When one of the world's most powerful and ruthless armies is hunting you, how do you evade capture inside a wooded patch of mountains about the size of Yosemite national park?
Posted 05.25.2011
Doku Umarov, a leader of the Chechen resistance, has used a YouTube video to take responsibility for the two suicide bombings on Moscow's subway Monda...
The New York Review Of Books | Posted 05.25.2011
As Moscow recovers from and responds to Monday's suicide bombings, we can turn to writing and literature from the past few decades to help us understa...
AP | ARSEN MOLLAYEV and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 05.25.2011
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A Chechen militant claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on the Moscow subway in an Internet message posted Wednes...
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011
Chechen rebels have taken credit for the Moscow bombing. The history of Russia's violent conflicts with Georgia is a long one. A number of books have ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Double suicide bombings targeting Moscow subway stations during rush-hour killed over three dozen people Monday. While no one has claimed responsibili...
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012