Russia's army has been heavily recruiting soldiers from its ethnic minorities, who make up around 20% of the country's population, to fight in Ukraine.

EXCLUSIVE: Ruslan Kutaev told the Express that ever since the outbreak of full-scale war, the problems of "ethnic incompatibility" had plagued Putin's army.

Aslambek Maigov, the envoy of Chechen rebel president Aslan Maskhadov, denied that Maskhadov was connected to the bombings. But the Chechen rebels are deeply factionalised and only a small portion ...

He was a close ally of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, who masterminded Chechen guerrilla resistance to Russia before he was killed by Russian special forces. Khangoshvili fled to Germany after ...