Two decades after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a tenacious investigative reporter who exposed the brutality of Russia's war in Chechnya and documented how…
October 7 marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, a tenacious investigative reporter who exposed the brutality of…
The reliability of official figures has been widely questioned, however, with examples such as Chechnya --where longstanding regional boss Ramzan Kadyrov was…
Kadyrov himself is under US and EU sanctions and has long faced accusations of overseeing or tolerating severe human rights abuses in Chechnya, including…
In the fall of 2022, Seda Suleimanova fled Chechnya for St.
User-generated footage shared on Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels showed pillars of smoke rising in Russia's Rostov, Yaroslavl, Perm, and Chechnya regions.
However, both he and Demurchiev fought in Chechnya in the 2000s, during the conflict that ravaged the Russian region.
In Chechnya, it’s even more fraught.
Ramzan Kadyrov (right), the head of Russia's Chechnya region, and his son Adam in August 2025.
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov (right), and his 18-year-old son, Adam, are pictured in Moscow in August 2025.
