Russia’s strained wartime budget and the prospect of Ramzan Kadyrov’s succession make Chechnya’s future in Russia an open question. None of this means Chechnya is on the verge of revolt. But it does ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against Ukraine following a drone strike echo a 2022 plot to infiltrate Kyiv and target President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former Ukrainian government official ...

Chechnya’s resistance movement is rooted in a long history of struggle and defiance. In this video, we trace the events that sparked the fight for independence and the leaders who drove it forward. We ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

Following his middleweight title win this past Saturday, Khamzat Chimaev has returned to Chechnya with his title. On Saturday, the premier promotion returned to Chicago for the first time since 2019 ...

Since its debut, the Mafia series has steadily marched forward through the decades – the original is set in the 1930s, its sequel spans the ’40s and ’50s, and Mafia III unfolds during the late ’60s.

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Mafia: The Old Country, from developer Hangar 13, is the fourth entry in the Mafia ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Mafia series has always been an outlier in the open-world action genre. While the 2002 original could have easily been written off as another ...

Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future. By ...