NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports from the breakaway Republic of Chechnya that even Russian officials acknowledge troop abuses against Chechen civilians. Human rights workers estimate two thousand ...

🚨 🔥 It appears Russian soldiers recently transferred to 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment in Shali, Russia-occupied Chechnya, burned down the base headquarters with all the paperwork. pic ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Chechen rebels shot down a Russian military helicopter Sunday, killing nine soldiers, shortly after the defense minister announced he was suspending plans to cut back Moscow ...

Nearly 20 Russian soldiers and police officers were reported killed in the fighting. The bomb attack took place in a vast military base that serves as headquarters for Russian forces in the region.

In Chechnya, blood feuds are a traditional custom of extracting revenge by killing an enemy or his male relatives. Reuters was not able to verify TASS’s translation of Kadyrov’s remarks.

SARANSK, Russia -- Coming home from Chechnya to the placid streets of this provincial capital, Sergei Myasnikov and the other men in his elite Russian police unit thought only of losing themselves ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, in a meeting with head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny, Russia, August 20, 2024 [Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters] ...

The warlord leader of Chechnya has mounted a machine gun on a Tesla Cybertruck that he says he plans to send to Russian forces on the battlefields in Ukraine.

Russian prosecutors on Monday asked a court to sentence a top rights activist in Chechnya to four years in a penal colony, over what campaigners say are trumped-up drug charges.

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 ...