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 ...

In Chechnya, defying authority or tradition can carry consequences beyond life. Activists say domestic violence victims, LGBT ...

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 ...

Despite Ramzan Kadyrov's public rejection of mobilisation, the Chechen authorities have called up 564 men from various regions of Russia who applied for passports after mobilisation was announced in ...

CNN — Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

GROZNY, Russia -- Lawmakers in the Russian region of Chechnya have approved a bill on changing the Chechen version of the official title of the region's authoritarian leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, into what ...

The head of Europe’s leading human rights bodysaid Wednesday that Ruslan Kutayev, a Chechen member of a newly formed European advisory body for exiled Russian dissidents, was suspended from his post ...

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ban on ...

* Islam flourishing in Russia's Chechnya * Chechen leader drives Muslim revival * Chechnya encourages customs that breach Russian law By Amie Ferris-Rotman GROZNY, Russia, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Adam, 52, ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...