Today, Grozny is perhaps the most famous city in the Northern Caucasus. Unfortunately, its fame is largely connected to the sad events of the last decade of the past century. At that time, the city ...

GROZNY, Russia — As I entered the lobby of my hotel in Grozny, I came face to face with two men dressed in tight black uniforms, revolvers hanging from their waists. They bore no military or police ...

In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnya’s capital Grozny. Dr Aslan Doukaev was a university teacher when the first Chechen war started. In this programme first broadcast in 2010 ...

A Chechen man helps Russians locate and repair their family graves in Grozny's war-scarred and neglected Christian cemetery.

On the last day of 1994, just over two weeks after Moscow began its first war against separatists in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya, Russian forces launched their first major assault on the ...

Images of Bakhmut, the latest Ukrainian city to be left in ruins after months of Russian shelling, evoke memories of World War II. Every building reduced to piles of pulverized concrete or a flimsy ...

Today, people here lead a peaceful life, and the capital of the republic is developing rapidly and can now compete with many Russian cities with a more fortuitous history. Grozny owes its founding to ...