Deniyev was a presidential candidate in the 1997 Chechen elections won by rebel commander Aslan Maskhadov. Federal Security Service spokesman Alexander Zdanovich said Maskhadov had Deniyev killed ...

Russian and Chechnya officials have held the first face-to-face talks since the start of the war in 1999. Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy to Chechnya met with a Chechen rebel representative ...