As all eyes are focused on growing tensions between the Kremlin and NATO, Chechen authorities seem emboldened to be unrestrained in their use of lawless tactics in their war with dissent. Yesterday, ...

A special police regiment in Russia's North Caucasus region has urged President Vladimir Putin "to protect" them from "defamation" by the Moscow-based independent investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- A daughter of a close associate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov who was forcibly removed by police from a shelter for domestic violence victims and rights activists has warned ...

Two young gay men who escaped from Chechnya were caught by Russian police and returned to Chechen police even though they were tortured there in the past, the Russia LGBT Network alleges. On February ...

Chechen police abducted Magomed Gadaev, an asylum seeker from Chechnya, in the Russian Federation, and a key witness in a high-profile torture investigation against Chechnya’s authorities, two days ...

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 ...

“Nightline” gained rare access to a Chechen prison with the republic’s head of police, General Apti Alaudinov. ABC News’ James Longman revealed to Alaudinov that he is gay while at the prison. Filming ...

French police are investigating the murder of a Chechen blogger, who was a vocal critic of President Ramzan Kadyrov, in a hotel room in Lille. The victim, identified to CNN as Imran Aliev, ran a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man looks into a burnt-out car near the Press House building, a local media agency, in the Chechen capital Grozny, December 4, ...

06 April 2009 Dubai: Pro-Moscow Chechen deputy prime minister Adam Delimkhanov has been accused by the chief of Dubai Police of masterminding the assassination of a former commander of a Chechen ...