Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Dagestan has since become the epicenter of the insurgency. Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after the first Chechen war, leaving it de-facto independent and largely lawless, but then ...

According to the UNHCR data from 2016, the majority of the 98,000 Russians who requested political asylum in Europe that year due to persecution in their homeland were from the Chechen Republic ...

Twenty years ago, one of the first things you’d see when opening an international newspaper was the word “Chechnya”. The North Caucasus republic, caught in a separatist struggle in the aftermath of ...