Grozny had a 19th-century Ashkenazi synagogue that was turned into a music school in 1937 and then destroyed during the first Chechen war of 1994-96. But today, “Chechnya has no Jews ...

The synagogue will be built on the site of a 19th-century Ashkenazi synagogue that was turned into a music school in 1937 and then destroyed during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, according to ...

Akhmed Halidovich Zakayev, the prime minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, in his office in Ukraine. (Jim Geraghty) These are the Chechens who won the First Chechen War, fought from 1994 ...

An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered ... I distinctly recall being six or seven years old when I first heard the term “deportation”. It slipped from the lips of one of my ...

“History repeats itself. We won the First Chechen War. They took their time, rebuilt their army while dividing us, and eventually, they won. They will try the same with Ukraine. You can’t ...

TASS/. For the first time since the early 1990s Chechen conscripts have begun to be drafted into Russia’s armed forces. All of them will be serving not very far away from home, in the Southern ...