Basayev (left) with Chechen resistance leader Maskhadov in 1999 (epa) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev, 41, began his one-man campaign against Russian rule over ...

Putin (right) shakes hands with FSB head Patrushev in Moscow today (epa) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Shamil Basayev, the most wanted man in Russia, is dead, according to Federal Security Service ...

The death of Russia’s most-wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, ends a long hunt for the fugitive, but questions were raised Tuesday over what caused the dynamite-filled truck next to his car ...

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 ...

Andrei Babitsky of RFE/RL, one of the few journalists to have met and interviewed Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, says his death may weaken the Chechen separatist movement, but will not kill it.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for modern Russia's worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday, Russia's top intelligence official said. Federal Security ...

After multiple attempts on his life, and a $10m bounty on his head, Chechnya’s most feared and blood-soaked rebel commander, Shamil Basayev, has finally been killed. After 11 years on the run, ...