A strong earthquake was felt in the Russian Federation, the epicenter was in Chechnya, near the town of Grozny and was felt in Georgia and Armenia. It rumbled for at ...

After the breakup of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's southern province of Chechnya declared its independence. Russia sent troops into the province in 1994, and again in ...

Anna Politkovskaya was a controversial Russian investigative journalist. Politjkovskaya investigated reports of abuse by the Kremlin during the war in Chechnya, writing pieces highly critical of Vladimir Putin's presidential ...

Ali Saleh Husain is a senior Al Qaeda associate who was in charge of the logistics affiliated with the group's fighters. He also was an intermediary between Al Qaeda ...

Mia Kirshner is a Canadian television and film actress, as well as writer, who hit mainstream fame with her role as Jenny Schecter on the hit Showtime series The L ...

President Yunus Bek Yevkurov of Ingushetia, a Muslim region of Russia, was injured on June 22, 2009, in a suicide bomb attack. As President Yevkurov's convoy was driving towards ...

Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected President of Russia. His successor was Vladimir Putin. Elected in 1991, Yeltsin remained the country's President until 1999.

Thor is a 2011 3D action adventure movie based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, the Norse god of thunder and lightning. In the movie, the leaders of Thor's ...