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 ...

MOSCOW – 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 three ...

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 ...

SHALAZHI, Russia — At the wedding of Ibragim Arsanov and Zarema Bashayeva, plum and pear trees were in bloom and the snowy peaks of the Caucasus Mountains formed a picturesque backdrop for the ...

A 17-year-old girl was forced to marry an already married man at least 30 years older than her in "the wedding of the millennium." This incident has raised legal and ethical issues in Russia and its ...

When Elena Milashina, an investigative journalist at the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, spoke up against an attempted cradle robbing in Chechnya on Facebook, she probably did not expect it to become what ...

GROZNY, Russia – What makes for a proper wedding in the eyes of Chechen authorities? No gunfire, keep the men and women at a distance on the dance floor and don't let the bride cut the cake. These are ...