At least that was the story reported in the national and local media, including the Echo of Moscow radio station and Chechnya Today – the most popular news site in the predominantly Muslim ...

Assistant to the head of Chechnya, Minister of the Chechen Republic for National Policy, External Relations, Press and ...

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 ...

The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has a penchant for young girls. Officially, he has a wife and 12 children.

Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up today at a religious ceremony in Chechnya, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens of others in the second major attack in the breakaway ...

THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his trigger-happy cosplay soldiers. Disturbed chief Kadyrov, 48, has ruled over ...

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 ...

Now, repentant and repatriated to Russia's Chechnya, she goes into schools to teach others of the dangers of extremism. Countries around the world are grappling with the question of how to treat ...

He blamed the attack on "terrorists", the usual Kremlin term to describe separatist rebels in Chechnya, which borders the impoverished province of Dagestan where the attack took place.

The Kremlin has refused to comment, but Russia's civil aviation agency said the situation in Chechnya was "very complicated" at the time. Vladimir Putin has been in power since 2000, longer than ...

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