Inside Chechnya, Russia's most infamous republic, we explore Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the ...

Investigators hope fingerprints will show if a man found dead after a shootout in Chechnya is Rudwan Khalil Abubaker, a Vancouver man missing since August. Police have visited his family home in ...

The son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been awarded his second “Hero of Chechnya” award at age 18. Adam Kadyrov ...

With 2020 such a nightmare (and we're still in the first act), it’s sometimes a challenge to wrap our brains around the world’s many pre-existing crises. David France’s daring new documentary “Welcome ...

One of the founders of the Committee Against Torture says his mother has been targeted in an intimidation campaign because of his recent public condemnation of the "abduction" of the mother of one of ...

Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did that twice in Chechnya in... Russia's wars in Chechnya offer a grim warning of ...

In 2017, headlines began circulating with accusations that task forces in Chechnya were torturing and killing gay and lesbian citizens. While homosexuality has long been highly taboo in the Russian ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, has been overwhelmingly reelected for another term in voting held across Russia on September 17-19. The result came as a surprise to no one, as the ...

The violent Muslim insurgency in Chechnya and Russia's iron-fisted efforts to quash it have never directly reached U.S. shores, but experts say the conflict has nonetheless inflamed several ...

Social media users are sharing a video of a man and woman being shot, claiming it shows Ukrainian military violence against civilians in Chechnya. The clip, however, is from a 2014 French film by an ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with David France, director of the new movie Welcome to Chechnya, about the persecution of gay, lesbian and trans people in the Russian republic. We're going to switch gears ...