Meanwhile, Russian troops killed 17 Chechen rebels in a series of clashes across the breakaway republic over the past 24 hours, the federal military told ITAR-TASS news agency on Tuesday.

A young Russian went on trial Thursday for alleged "treason" after being jailed for supposedly burning the Koran and suffering a controversial prison beating from the son of Chechnya's strongman ...

The bombings terrorized Russia. The Russian authorities blamed Chechen rebels and thereby galvanized popular support for a new war in Chechnya. President Boris Yeltsin and his entourage were ...

The family of a British journalist believed to have been killed while reporting on the conflict between Chechen rebels and Russian forces have paid tribute to him. Roddy Scott, 31, is understood ...

Another pro-Moscow Chechen official was shot dead by secessionist rebels earlier this week, the office of the Kremlin advisor for the Chechen conflict said Wednesday. The murder of Lechi ...

He is also an outspoken critic of President Kadyrov. After two bloody conflicts between Chechen rebels and Russia, the southern Russian republic is now firmly under the control of Mr Kadyrov - a ...

Some 700 people are still being held hostage in a Moscow theater on Dubvovka Street by Chechen rebels, who are demanding withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.