The mosque in Gekhi, which is due to be opened in 2015, will have the name of Ilyas Kadyrov, a religious personality who was the great-grandfather of post-Soviet Chechnya’s first President ...

Kadyrov handed over a glass reliquary with the hair to Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Russian Mufti Council, at a ceremony at the Heart of Chechnya mosque in Grozny. "Moscow is the Russian ...

The scene, which took place in the White Mosque of Shali and has drawn much criticism on social media, was captured in its entirety by Chechnya’s leader (and close ally of Moscow), Ramzan Kadyrov.

Razan Kadyrov opened the $10 million mosque dedicated to his late father in 2014, with donations from Chechnya contributing $6 million to its funding.