After months of torture in the basement of a Grozny police station, a gay Chechen man has finally fled the grip of Russia and his native country’s rabid homophobia, the North Caucasus LGBTQ+ rights ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drone attack hit a special police regiment building in the center of the city of Grozny in the Chechen Republic on Dec. 4, ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish police said Wednesday they would arrest exiled Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev if he visits Poland as planned this week. Zakayev, viewed by Moscow as a terrorist but ...

A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya rejected a request by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, for an early release ...

* Dubai police detain Russian suspect * Dubai police confirm Yamadayev is dead * Dubai police say organised criminal group behind murder (Adds quotes, background) By Tamara Walid DUBAI, March 31 ...

Police have detained a 19-year-old Chechen woman at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport while she was on her way out of Russia to escape domestic violence, rights defenders told RFE/RL on June 12. According to ...

Experts are criticizing the New York and San Antonio police departments (NYPD and SAPD) for having their officers compete at the recent international police training event alongside special forces ...

The NYPD’s tactical response unit participated in a series of SWAT games earlier this month against dozens of police forces around the world — including a Chechen military group that has been accused ...

GROZNY, August 9 (Itar-Tass) — Chechen police seized almost three kilograms of heroin, a record haul for the republic, the press service of the republic's Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass. The ...

GROZNY, Russia, June 17 -- Police killed the top Chechen rebel leader in a special operation in his home town Saturday. Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot in the town of Argun, east of the Chechen ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The groom is approaching 50, a silver-haired boss in the Chechen strongman’s feared police force. The bride is 17, a shy beauty reportedly devastated at the idea of wedding a man nearly ...