Join us on Part 2 of our hitchhiking journey through the Russian North Caucasus as we travel from Dagestan into Chechnya, crossing a remote high mountain pass that few outsiders ever see. We explore ...

Join us on Part 2 of our hitchhiking journey through the Russian North Caucasus as we travel from Dagestan into Chechnya, ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A general and ally of Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Russia's ...

The Kadyrovs are a political dynasty in Chechnya. The first generation, Akhmad Kadyrov, supported Moscow during the Chechen War and helped secure control of the region. The second generation Kadyrov, ...

Sept 21 (Reuters) - Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ⁠ally ⁠of Russian President ⁠Vladimir Putin, has been re-elected to a fifth ​term as leader of his southern, mainly Muslim region of Chechnya ‌with almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's President Putin visits Chechnya (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday ...

At nighttime in the Chechen capital of Grozny an immense fountain lights up and its jets of water dance to the music of Celine Dion. “It is more beautiful than Las Vegas,” says the city’s mayor Muslim ...

FOR A SMALL territory of 1.5m people, Chechnya has played a big role in shaping modern Russia. The Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s were the only large conflicts, among those that followed ...

The plane was flying from the Azerbaijani capital Baku on the western shore of the Caspian to the city of Grozny in Chechnya ...

On June 12, 20-year-old Chechen native Selima Ismailova was arrested at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport as she was preparing to leave the country, fleeing what she has described as years of violent abuse at ...