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 (Reuters) - Russia's most famous campaigning newspaper said on Friday it had appealed to the Kremlin to protect its staff after Chechen clerics said the paper faced "retribution" for alleging ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A gravelly voice rings out from the phone's loudspeaker: "Aren't you scared of me?" The man on the screen, 32-year-old Chechen video blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, frowns. "I'm not scared ...

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 4 October 2004 CPJ press release: RUSSIA: Backing off statements, Moscow police deny progress in Klebnikov case New York, October 4, 2004-Moscow police have backed away ...

Three Chechen men who were overheard at a bus stop talking about becoming “heroes before Allah” were detained after causing a major security alert in Germany, but police said they did not appear to ...

MOSCOW (voa) – Seven people have been released from a theater in Moscow where Chechen separatists are holding hundreds of people hostage. Russian security officials say the hostage takers have also ...