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 ...

Nariman Dzhelyal has been appointed as Ukraine’s new ambassador to Turkiye after facing jail at the Kremlin’s hands.

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 ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was impossible to establish the real number of victims of Russian aggression ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Italian's project, Spasibo, documents life in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, focusing on the social, political and economic situation. Image source, Davide Monteleone Surrounded on ...

On Thursday, Chechen Prime Minister Hasan Khakimov announced that, at the request of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, all families of the deceased and injured would receive financial aid and "all ...

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