On the morning of July 15, 2009, the prominent activist and investigator for the Memorial human rights group Natalya Estemirova was abducted from her home in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the ...

Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE) .Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE) . — Russian President Vladimir Putin will propose Ramzan Kadyrov to continue for another five years leading the republic of Chechnya, RBK daily newspaper ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Russian lawmakers from neighboring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a “blood feud” unless they prove otherwise, ...

Join us on Part 2 of our hitchhiking journey through the Russian North Caucasus as we travel from Dagestan into Chechnya, crossing a remote high mountain pass that few outsiders ever see. We explore ...

GROZNY, Chechnya, Russian Federation, March 27 (UNHCR) - The authorities in Russia's war-ravaged republic of Chechnya have announced that, by the end of this year, they will provide apartments to ...

As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has ...