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. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special forces unit marks its tenth anniversary in Russia's Chechnya region MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader ...

When 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova fled her home last year, she believed she finally had a chance to live the way she wanted. Coming from Chechnya, a conservative Muslim republic in Russia, she cut ...

Welcome to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Once known for the conflicts of the 1990s and early 2000s, Grozny was referred to as 'the ...

Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya, his first trip there since 2011. He was greeted by Chechnya's self-styled warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. The visit comes amid a Ukrainian incursion into Russia's ...

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 ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone struck a campus belonging to Russia’s National Guard Sunday in the Russian region of Chechnya, as Kyiv continues to strike back after a mass air attack from ...

Lest We Forget (Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the start of the First Chechen War). 2025. Canvas, oil. 70×100. Artist Andrey Nikolaevich Mironov. (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Defense Minister ...

The Moscow theater siege was a portent of more terrorism to come, warns Rajan Menon, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow specializing in Russia. He argues that the shocking attack shows that ...

Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the German ambassador over a ​meeting in Kyiv between a German ...

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 ...