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In late 1999, a series of explosions destroyed apartments across Russia. When Chechen separatists were found guilty of ...
Russian authorities have removed the Taliban from their list of terrorist organizations. The Kremlin can now sign agreements ...
In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once called it the "god of war." ...
Popov – reputedly a soldier’s soldier with a record of leading from the front – faced years in prison for charges he says Kremlin rivals made up. His likely orders: Take ground regardless of losses.
After the withdrawal from Afghanistan, it’s only between ’89 to ’94 to the beginning of the Chechen war, then the second Chechen war in ’99, then the war in Georgia in 2008, then the first ...
Vladimir Putin’s rise offers a glimpse of the cost of underestimating threats and accommodating adversaries.
"In the later years of the Second World War, Soviet density of firepower on ... in counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and Chechnya. As in 21st-century Western armies, the perceived ...
Lost in the fog of war? Here’s what you need to know about where things stand on the ground amid the fourth spring of ...
Journalists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who have been imprisoned for their work are dismayed by the effort to close ...
Since the early 2000s, Turkey has relied on a foreign policy approach that emphasised cooperation instead of competition.