But she insisted yesterday that her focus was on Russia only for invading Chechnya in 1994. Timaeva explained her father was a Chechnyan freedom fighter who was tortured by Russians when he was ...

In Chechnya, "educational talks" will be initiated with residents who post on social media in ways "inconsistent with Chechen culture and mentality," according to the Kavkaz.Realii portal.

One Russian soldier was killed in an attack on a military convoy in Chechnya on Thursday, Russian state media reported. Unknown assailants attacked the convoy on the outskirts of Grozny ...

Taylor Swift's iconic hit "Shake It Off" is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the Russian national anthem but both have fallen foul of a new ruling on music in Chechnya. The Russian republic ...

He identifies himself as the 19-year-old administrator of a social media channel that has criticised Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Mr Kadyrov is accused of overseeing rights abuses in the ...

The official version is that this is a Ukrainian attack – the first one during the full-scale war in Ukraine against a target in Chechnya." ...

The systematic beatings, torture, and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law are only part of the abuses suffered by detainees in Chechnya. Detainees are held for extended ...

The Zayed Fund for Entrepreneurship and Innovation finances small and medium-sized businesses in Chechnya, whose leader Ramzan Kadyrov has forged close ties with Arab states, and the Emirates in ...

Source: Belokiev in a comment to Kavkaz.Realii, a local project of Radio Liberty on the Caucasus Quote: "There are no Ukrainian prisoners in Chechnya. They are held in other regions, and Kadyrov's ...

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DUSHANBE -- Eight former top officials, politicians, and public figures in Tajikistan have gone on trial behind closed doors on charges of plotting to forcibly seize power, calling for mass ...