Russian and Chechen soldiers in a devastated Mariupol neighborhood close to the Azovstal frontline. The battle between Russian / Pro Russian forces...
Russian unit's lead T-72 tanks, one mounted with a mine-clearing system , halt near Samashky, some 40 kilometers from Grozny, on December 13, 1994....
Civilians come back to the main Grozny market after its destruction by a Russian missile, the day before.
Russian soldiers in the Chechen capital Grozny man a checkpoint on Minutka Square in the center of the city, February 25, 2000.
Worker wearing a gas mask arranges corpses into a mass grave in Grozny's cemetery on May 11, 1995. The situation for the population of the Chechen...
Chechen woman passes by a tank of Russian federal troops on the main street of Gehy-Chu village, south from Grozny 16 February 2000. Russian forces...
Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with Russian soldiers during a concert after an awards ceremony in Gudermes, 30 km east of Grozny,...
Chechen separatist soldier stands on an APC, guarding the presidential palace on Grozny's central square, on November 25, 1994. Tension is rising in...
Russian soldiers prepare for a raid against Chechen rebels April 29, 2000 in the mountains near the village of Orekhovo in southern Chechnya. Chechen...
Year-Old Refugee Aishat Gandziyeva Cries After Returning To Her Home In The Village Verkhny Gamiyakh Near Khasavyurt, Dagestan September 11, 1999....
An armed Chechen separatist fighter displays a row of gold teeth during the First Chechen War, Chechnya, 1995.
Chechen fighter takes cover from sniper fire in front of the from the presidential palace destroyed by Russian artillery bombardments in Grozny on...
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech next to Chechen President Alu Alkhanov and Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov as he...
Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with a Russian officer as he presents a gift of an ornamental hunting knife in Gudermes,...
General view of one of the neighborhoods of Grozny in fire after several bombardments by Russian war planes 31 December. Russian troops launched...
Picture taken on March 31, 1995 shows a Russian soldier inspecting the bodies of civilans killed in winter fighting that have been exhumed for...
An undated file picture shows Russian soldiers atop an APC taking their position near the village of Shatoy in Chechnya. Military bases are fortified...
Civilians run 12 January 1995 from a basement to take cover during heavy shelling of central Grozny. Russia launched 14 January an all-out air and...
An undated file picture shows Russian soldiers atop an APC taking their position near the village of Shatoy in Chechnya. Military bases are fortified...
Chechen special task soldiers ride on an armoured personnel carrier during a raid on suspected insurgents in Grozny on July 8, 2008. A Russian...
Chechen soldiers mill around the body of a dead Russian serviceman outside of the presidential palace in the center of Grozny in Jan. 1995 during...
Mother weeps beside the body of her son in the shattered Chechen town of Gudermes 27 December 1995 killed in the battle between Russia Russian Army...
Chechen women and men pass in February 1996 by a Russian Army armoured personnel carrier in front of destroyed presidential palace in Grozny, capital...
Russian sniper takes aim at Chechen fighters from a position in the village of Sergen-Yurt, south-east from Grozny, 25 January 2000. Chechens...
Ramzan Kadyrov proudly displays his shooting skills at a firing range in his village of Tsentoroi in front of members of his private army. Officially...
Official portrait of Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov in his Government office in Grozny, Chechnya. Ramzan was born 5 October 1976 in Tsenteroi, Chechnya,...
Chechnyan women grieve for lost loved ones during the Russian-Chechen war. As this picture was taken, Russian troops were invading the country in an...
Group of Chechen volunteers walk past the bodies of two Russian soldiers who were killed during the last assault on the capital Grozny 01 January...
Chechen women and men pass in February 1996 by the destroyed presidential palace in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya....
Russian Army soldier inspects 31 March 1995 at a cemetery in Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya, the bodies of Chechen...
Chechen asylum-applicants Asya Sugaipova , Mohza Mukayeva and Khadra Zhukova prepare potatoe piroshki and other foods as Sugaipova's daughter Irsana...
Vitaly who says is of Russian origin and fought in the Russian army during the first Chechen war, but today fights alongside Ukrainian soldiers,...
Russian Army armored personnel carrier and special police forces are seen outside a multistorey block of flats where suspected pro-Chechen militants...
Russian soldier walks through the streets of the destroyed Chechen capital Grozny, February 25, 2000.
Picture taken on March 31, 1995 shows a Russian soldier inspecting the bodies of civilans killed in winter fighting that have been exhumed for...
Russian media tycoon Boris Berezovsky says that he has film footage that proves that Russia's Federal Security Service was behind a series of...