We examine how Russia, despite its overwhelming military power, failed to win the First Chechen War. In this video, we trace the conflict from the initial invasion in 1994 to the eventual withdrawal ...

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 ...

Moscow blamed Chechen terrorists, though many observers questioned whether Russian security services orchestrated the attacks to justify renewed war. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used the bombings as ...