In many parts of Russia’s North Caucasus region, Muslim women often lose custody of their children if they divorce, remarry, ...

Russians who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan came home to silence and stigma. There’s a very public push to make things ...

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

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 ...

Russia’s republic of Chechnya has opened its first pharmacy with separate services for men and women, the region’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov said. The new pharmacy in Grozny is the first of 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While active combat in most areas of Chechnya clearly subsided several years ago, the civilian population has experienced little relief. Witnesses repeatedly told Human Rights Watch that the ...

GROZNY, July 4. /TASS/. Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov instructed law enforcement agencies to identify the attackers of reporter Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov, who were severely beaten ...

[The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation; the Ukrainian parliament has recognised it as the temporarily Russian-occupied territory of the Chech ...

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 ...

During their conversation they discussed why some of the best and scary UFC fighters come from regions like Chechnya and Dagestan. Rogan believes some of the scariest UFC fighters come from war ...