The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has proposed initiating the procedure to remove the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from Russia's list of terrorist organizations. The group ...
The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality and silencing critics of both Kadyrov's and Putin's regimes. The Kadyrov family has been able to ...
The chief source of Putin’s dilemma is that the tragedy occurred over Chechnya, perhaps the only corner of Russia where his word isn’t necessarily law. If the incident had occurred in the skies over ...
Quote: "For comparison, the Russians had lost 6,000 people over the entire period of the Second Chechen War. In other words, in January, the Russians had more deaths in Pokrovsk alone than in the ...
It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia ...
Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...