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Rumours were swirling today over the health of Vladimir Putin ally and feared warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, amid claims the Chechen strongman is gravely ill and receiving emergency treatment. The ...

Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov’s kidneys have failed, and the Kremlin is looking for a new leader of Chechnya, according to a source in the Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) ...

For nearly two decades, Chechnya has been governed not through institutions, but through one man. Now, as questions grow around Ramzan Kadyrov’s health, the future of the republic – and Moscow’s grip ...

Shugaban kasar Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky ya bukaci Amurka ta kara yin matsin lamba ga Rasha, ta hanyar cire shugaban Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov daga madafun iko Volodymyr Zelensky ya yi wannan kiran ne ...

12:19, Tue, Jan 6, 2026 Updated: 12:19, Tue, Jan 6, 2026 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed his 20-year-old son, Akhmat Kadyrov, as acting deputy head of the Chechen government in a move that ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against Ukraine following a drone strike echo a 2022 plot to infiltrate Kyiv and target President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former Ukrainian government official ...

MOSCOW, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday that a Ukrainian drone had struck and damaged a high-rise building in Grozny, capital of Russia's southern Chechnya region, and ...

Chechnya’s resistance movement is rooted in a long history of struggle and defiance. In this video, we trace the events that sparked the fight for independence and the leaders who drove it forward. We ...

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 ...

Following his middleweight title win this past Saturday, Khamzat Chimaev has returned to Chechnya with his title. On Saturday, the premier promotion returned to Chicago for the first time since 2019 ...

Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future. By ...