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Khamzat Chimaev and the UFC's Kadyrov problem

MMA star Khamzat Chimaev’s first defeat at UFC 328 on May 10 wasn’t just a blow to his 15-0 undefeated record — it was a rare ...
By maintaining a clearer focus on the past, “Cold War 1994” winningly clarifies the filmmakers’ concerns with their ...
The blockbuster prequel Cold War 1994 delivers exactly what it promised. Viewers come for the ridiculously overstuffed cast but stay for the relentlessly – almost ostentatiously – convoluted tale of ...
(MENAFN) Moscow escalated diplomatic tensions with Berlin on Monday, summoning German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff to register a formal protest over a meeting between a senior German lawmaker ...
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday it summoned German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff over a meeting between a German lawmaker and former Russian citizen and wanted criminal Akhmed ...
Russia has begun a spring offensive in Ukraine, launching a major assault on the “fortress belt” of heavily defended cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. At the same time, a wave of nearly ...
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on ...
The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia - Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV The Muslim ...
Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...
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 ...
On New Year’s Eve 1994, Grozny became the epicenter of a brutal confrontation as Russian forces entered the city under a silent, wintry sky. What followed was a catastrophic clash that merged military ...