THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED Monday that its security forces had killed Shamil Basayev, a commander of the jihadist insurgency in Chechnya. The death of the man responsible for the 2004 Beslan ...

Shamil Basayev is not well know in this country, although the extent of his crimes has made him as despised and hated in Russia as Osama bin Laden is here in America. Ever since his 1991 debut–the ...

Prosecutors have asked a military court in Russia to sentence two alleged members of the late Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev's group to 24 years in prison each over their alleged participation ...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says that two alleged members of a group led by late Chechen separatist field commander Shamil Basayev that attacked Daghestan in 1999 have been apprehended.

The Southern District Military Court has sentenced two members of Shamil Basayev's gang who took part in the attack on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya in 2000. This was reported on June 29 by the FSB ...

TO THE KREMLIN and to ordinary Russians, the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, killed in an explosion in southern Russia early yesterday, embodied the same brand of unqualified, unsettling evil that ...

Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Meier, author of Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict about how Shamil Basayev's death may help Putin at the G8 Summit meetings. More now on some of the points that ...

Russia’s most wanted fugitive, rebel warlord Shamil Basayev, has claimed responsibility for killing Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader in a bomb attack that authorities increasingly believe was an inside ...

MOSCOW — Russia has reacted with real anger to Thursday’s broadcast on ABC of a lengthy interview with Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord who is deemed by Moscow the most dangeorous terrorist in the ...

Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), announced Monday that Shamil Basayev had been killed shortly after midnight in a truck explosion outside a village in Ingushetia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin handed out medals this week for the killing of Chechen leader Shamil Basayev but Chechens say Basayev died accidentally. The newspaper which reported that Chechen ...