The Siege of School Number One: Chechnya’s Darkest Moment. Posted: June 12, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. Explore the harrowing events, murky politics, and devastating aftermath of Russia ...

Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President ...

Two members of Chechnya’s LGBTQ community have died as a result of police torture and at least 40 have been arrested since the end of December in a new crackdown on gay people in the mostly ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful head of Russia's republic of Chechnya, said early on Monday that there will be an offensive by Russian forces not only on the besieged port of Mariupol, but also on ...

Over 150 Ukrainian soldiers may be held captive in Chechnya, with a high likelihood that they are in the city of Grozny. [The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the ...

Before opening the boxing tournament, Mike Tyson attended a performance at the Gudermes Stadium by 15 bikers dressed in black who had come from Moscow on a friendship mission to the eastern city ...

Putin makes surprise visit to Chechnya for first time in 13 years. Dmytro Basmat, The Kyiv Independent news desk. Wed, August 21, 2024 at 4:37 AM UTC. 2 min read. Russian ...

Citing Russia’s second war with Chechnya and its assault on the capital, Grozny, beginning in 1999, military experts raised doubts that Russia could prevail in Ukraine relying solely on a ...

The situation in Chechnya is made worse by a conservative majority-Muslim society where any expression of sexuality that is seen as outside traditional gender roles is considered sinful, Kirey said.

Ramzam Kadyrov's former bodyguard, Umar Israilov, was gunned down on January 13 as he was walking out of a grocery store in a Vienna neighborhood.

Children from occupied areas of Ukraine were taken to a camp in Chechnya for "military-patriotic" training in November, according to Russian officials. The children were described as "socially ...