Welcome to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Once known for the ...

New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the republic might be preparing for a regime change. Chechen warlord Ramzan ...

Oscar nominee David France's startling depiction of the courageous effort to save Chechnya's queer community from state-sanctioned persecution was denounced by the government and went viral: "People ...

Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on January 21 that the detained mother of a prominent human rights lawyer faces a "real prison sentence," the Chechen authorities "will take care of" ...

Moscow — An award-winning Russian investigative journalist is in hospital after being badly beaten by armed assailants during a trip to Chechnya, the Memorial human rights group said on Tuesday.

Relatives of two brothers who fled homophobic persecution in Chechnya — but were later captured — were detained and interrogated by authorities, according to an LGBTQ rights group. Last month, 20-year ...

GROZNY, Russia -- With four children, no husband, no home and nothing but milk from a borrowed cow for income, Bikisat Eskiev has not a ruble to spare. So to save the equivalent of less than $2 a week ...

Just a few months ago at UFC 319, Khamzat Chimaev finally fought for UFC gold when he took on Dricus Du Plessis for the ...

The violent Muslim insurgency in Chechnya and Russia's iron-fisted efforts to quash it have never directly reached U.S. shores, but experts say the conflict has nonetheless inflamed several ...

Senior U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism officials tell NBC News that there has been recent intelligence reporting that Osama bin Laden is financing the Chechen operation in Dagestan and may be ...

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