How did Russia lose the First Chechen War? This modern history documentary explores Chechnya’s struggle for independence, the military failure of Russian forces, and the rise of leaders like Dudayev ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

GALASHKI, Russia -- It wasn't until the next day that they found his pale, blue body, buried in a shallow but carefully disguised grave. His teeth had been shattered, his jaw broken, his nose smashed, ...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Sept. 1 that it had charged Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in absentia with war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers. Investigators say Kadyrov publicly ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 131. Mark Galeotti is the author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, published by Osprey and out in paperback now For all that ...

The writer, director, editor and narrator of "Memory," Vladlena Sandu, grew up in '90s Chechnya. War was on her doorstep, and often not only there, but inside her childhood home, with its boots under ...

“Memory,” Vladlena Sandu’s war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of its world premiere on the Lido. A personal project, “Memory” is a feature ...

During a visit to the Mandryk military hospital, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin met with participants in the invasion of ...