Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Security Service of Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine has served Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov with ...

Chechen-born political activist Noah Krieger, also known as Murad Dadaev, has announced the creation of a military unit ...

Iya Rashevska was told her husband – a member of the country’s armed forces – had gone missing in the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region, in April 2023. The news of Serhiy Skotarenko’s ...

Facing what activists say is a hardening of repression inside Chechnya amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Asil and Aishat, both young women, recently fled their violent families in search of safety.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has announced an indictment in absentia against Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. He ordered the use of Ukrainian prisoners as human shields for Russian forces, the ...

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 ...

According to official reports, four soldiers were slightly injured in a barracks during a Ukrainian drone attack on the ...

Dzhihad Yunusov has reportedly passed away while fighting for Russia’s war against Ukraine. Yunusov was embroiled in controversy this past May after alleged footage emerged of him assaulting two of ...

The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia – Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV Facing what ...