Before Chechnya made headlines as the ancestral land of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, it had gone largely unnoticed in the American press. How much do you know about it?

Few places in the world are as laden with unexploded land mines, grenades and mortar shells as Chechnya. An estimated 500,000 explosives pepper a territory the size of New Jersey, according to the ...

This is Chechnya behind the facade of victory declared by Russia seven months ago in its war against the separatist rebels. The Russians occupy almost all of the breakaway region, yet control ...

The beat goes on, but much of Taylor Swift’s, Beyoncé’s and even the Beatles’ back catalogs could be off playlists in Chechnya after the Russian republic instituted limits on musical tempo ...

For centuries, Chechnya has bitterly fought Russia for independence, resulting in innumerable deaths and human rights atrocities. In the past few years, Chechen terrorists have hijacked a Moscow ...

ELLIOTT: We used to hear a lot about the separatist war there in Chechnya, you know, Russian planes bombing cities, rebels attacking Russian soldiers, assassinating local officials even.