"The last thing Moscow needs now is instability in the North Caucasus, particularly in Chechnya." Harold Chambers, a North Caucasus expert at the Jamestown Foundation, agreed, saying that "Putin ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is holding more than 150 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Grozny jails, Kyiv says, accusing him of ...

Reports that Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov is terminally ill pose a serious problem for Vladimir Putin. The ...

Her father, Rafoi Rafailov, heads an association of Chechen Jews in the city of Pyatigorsk, situated 150 miles west of Grozny in the North Caucasian Federal District. “They all left, I don’t ...

The commander of the 78th motorized Rifle regiment "Sever - Akhmat" of the Russian Defense Ministry, Zaindi Zingiev, visited ...

Announcing the ban, Dadayev said: "Chechen musical culture has always ... said the BBC. In North Korea, outside music is banned and Kim Jong-un has publicly condemned K-Pop (pop music originating ...

has been detained in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram page. "On Saturday, Imran Datsayev, extremely dangerous terrorist, was detained.

MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Militants of the Islamic State killed earlier this month in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya had received instructions from a single recruitment center ...

Sannet lost custody of her two children -- both under 12 -- after she remarried. A family court in Russia’s North Caucasus region last year ruled in favor of her ex-husband, who said he did not ...

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Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...

Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...