Despite Ramzan Kadyrov's public rejection of mobilisation, the Chechen authorities have called up 564 men from various regions of Russia who applied for passports after mobilisation was announced in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — In defiance of those in Moscow eager to curb his powers, Chechnya’s strongman leader told his security forces to open fire on Russian federal troops if they tried to operate in the ...

We, the undersigned, express our grave concern over reports that two Chechen men were arbitrarily detained by the police in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod and forcibly transferred to Chechnya.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is forcibly conscripting men in Chechnya to fight in Ukraine, imprisoning those who refuse and threatening their families, ...

MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) - Two men from Chechnya have told Reuters they were detained by police and subjected to torture and beatings because they were gay, which is considered a crime by some in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The regional strongman leader of Russia’s province of Chechnya on Thursday blamed unidentified foreign spy agencies for the recent killing in Austria of a Chechen man who criticized him.

As Ukrainian and Western officials have decried the atrocities witnessed in the Bucha massacre and around Kyiv, a hardened Chechen fighter and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Three Chechen men were convicted in Austria on Wednesday of their role in an exile's murder during a botched kidnapping that authorities suspect Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov ...

A month after reports emerged of gay Chechen men being rounded up and sent to a prison camp in the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, a group of men who say they are survivors of the camps ...