Police in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku searched the offices of Russia's state-funded news outlet Sputnik on Monday, local ...

Seven people linked to a Kremlin-funded media outlet in Azerbaijan's capital have been detained after a raid on its office, ...

Provides an overview of Chechnya, ... Since 2003 the capital, Grozny, has been rebuilt from scratch after being destroyed in the two wars against Russia. Related topics. Chechnya; ...

Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did that twice in Chechnya in the 1990s. Is a repeat likely in Ukraine today?

Human Rights Watch reports that at least 23 men suspected of being gay were rounded up and tortured in Grozny, the capital of the Russian region of Chechnya. Human Rights Watch reports that the ...

I n 1994, when Russia invaded the breakaway region of Chechnya, Yuri Kozyrev, then a freelance photographer, captured some of the most iconic images of the ensuing war. It was too dangerous at the ...

Dzhabrailov is one of at least dozens of men who were detained and tortured in an anti-gay “purge” that took place in Chechnya in 2017, according to news reports, human rights organizations ...

Located in the northern part of the Caucasus mountain range, Chechnya's 1.3 million population is 95.3 percent Chechen, an ethnic minority originating in the North Caucasus region, according to ...

A prominent Russian journalist with a history of explosive scoops about the Chechen government and a human rights lawyer were brutally attacked and beaten in Chechnya, Russia, leaving them with ...

A blast was heard in the capital of Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Chechnya on Friday, a Reuters witness said. The witness quoted bystanders as saying a suicide bomber had detonated explosives ...

MOSCOW — Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of ...