For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Russian lawmakers from neighboring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a “blood feud” unless they prove otherwise, ...

Reports that Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov is terminally ill pose a serious problem for Vladimir Putin. The Russian president is desperate to avoid instability in the North Caucasus ...

Maxim Lapunov should be voted Advocate Magazine's Person of the Year or rather should have received this honor in 2017. He is the main protagonist of gay journalist/filmmaker David France's searing ...

Dozens of LGBT people have allegedly been rounded up and tortured. GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years. He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a ...

“Memory,” Vladlena Sandu’s war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of its world premiere on the Lido. A personal project, “Memory” is a feature ...

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Russia on Saturday after being filmed behind the wheel of one of the company’s Cybertrucks mounted with a machine gun. In a clip posted ...