The 47-year-old strongman ruler of Chechnya, a republic within the Russian Federation, is loyal to Vladimir Putin but Kremlin insiders and research groups have suggested the relationship has come ...

It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...

NALCHIK, Russia -- A Chechen rebel has been sentenced to life in prison for numerous crimes, including torture and killing Russian servicemen. Salaudin Temirbulatov was convicted of killing ...

Russian officials insist that Chechnya is undisputedly a subject of the Russian Federation and that Russian law must apply there; Chechen officials insist on the independence of Chechen government ...

which advocate self-determination for ethnic republics within the Russian Federation. In November, the Supreme Court banned another nonexistent group -- the International Public LGBT Movement.

Chechnya is nominally a semi-autonomous republic within the Russian Federation and has a degree of independence over some laws, especially around culture. But Meduza said that as well as banning most ...

The Soviet-Afghan War destroyed Afghanistan and eventually the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991 into 15 republics. Numerous satellite states in Europe were liberated at the same time.

The fate and whereabouts of Salman Tepsurkaev, moderator of the 1ADAT Telegram channel, critical of Chechen authorities, remains unknown almost a year after his abduction on 6 September 2020 in ...

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said at a meeting with the operational headquarters for the "special military operation" that there will be no mobilization in the republic. He explained this by ...

May 10, 2024Updated 1:16 p.m. ET Ukraine rushed reinforcements to its northern border on Friday after Russian forces ...

[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 ...

Chechnya is nominally a semi-autonomous republic within the Russian Federation and has a degree of independence over some laws, especially around culture. But Meduza said that as well as banning ...