Anand draws with Gelfand; finishes third

CHINESE grandmaster Ding Liren, 20, didn't do well in the recently held Alekhine Memorial in Paris and St. Petersburg, finishing ninth in a field of 10. He lost three games, drew five and won only one — against the eventual tournament co-winner, ...

The identification of two young Chechen males as the alleged perpetrators of bombing of the Boston Marathon has caused Americans to ask a great many questions about the alleged perpetrators. Those questions range from the ineffable—what could ...

: The April 15th terrorist in the United States (Boston) has made the world more aware of Russia's terrorism problem in the Caucasus. The two Boston terrorists (the Tsarnaev brothers) were Chechens from Dagestan. Russia had alerted the American FBI ...

He was once the tattooed, tough-as-nails thief who earned his stars by ascending the hostile hierarchies of Soviet-era gulags. These days, you're more likely to see him sipping limited-edition Courvoisier in deluxe Mediterranean beach resorts, ...