The deaths of two women in the Caucasus region under suspicious circumstances have brought renewed attention to the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya. While being pursued outside Chechnya, which ...

While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s air campaign in Syria may have other aims, one result seems to be that it is hitting Islamists from Russia’s Caucasus, say analysts. High on the list of places ...

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 ...

Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov has called Chechens who fled to Europe and criticise the republic’s authorities ‘despicable ...

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 ...

Ramzan Kadyrov has treated Chechens far less well than he has ethnic Russians and others who arrive to work with his regime, a policy that undoubtedly plays well in Moscow but that is infuriating and ...

GENEVA, April 2 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has expressed concern about the latest in a string of violent attacks on asylum seekers in Moscow. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Russian Federation, the ...