Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” Despite its relatively small population, Chechnya has played an outsized ...

Quote: "For comparison, the Russians had lost 6,000 people over the entire period of the Second Chechen War. In other words, in January, the Russians had more deaths in Pokrovsk alone than in the ...