Yurt, which the locals like to call the Wrestlers' Mecca, boasts the greatest concentration of wrestling champions in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian forces are carrying out large-scale operations against separatists throughout Chechnya, amid fears of more rebel attacks both inside the republic and in Russia as a whole. The Russian news ...

Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE) .Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE) . — Russian President Vladimir Putin will propose Ramzan Kadyrov to continue for another five years leading the republic of Chechnya, RBK daily newspaper ...

Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, says it has confirmed the death of Chechen rebel warlord Ruslan Gelayev. It has released footage of a body, saying the corpse has been identified as that of ...

Olivier Dupuis, a member of the European Parliament (MEP), today began the 15th day of a hunger strike intended to highlight the continuing plight of the conflict in Chechnya. In an interview with RFE ...

Chechen separatist leader Doku Umarov, whose attacks on Russian civilians earned him the nickname "Russia's Bin Laden," is dead, according to an insurgency website. However, it's worth noting that ...

Chechnya has banned women's clothing with "masculine elements," citing tradition, but critics argue it is about control. The ban follows hot on the heels of another recent restriction banning women ...