Andrei Besedin is a contributor to RFE/RL's Caucasus.Realities.
Schoolchildren in a southern Russian town were brought together at a display to honor local men who died in the war in Ukraine -- including a repeat offender who was convicted of the brutal 2018 murder of an Interior Ministry employee. Relatives and police colleagues of the victim are irate.
Three teenage sons of Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov have often been in the spotlight, and some of their siblings have also been showered with accolades. What’s behind the prominence of the trio?
A teenager in the southern Russian city of Volgograd allegedly burned a Koran near a mosque. Authorities soon took the odd step of transferring the case to the Muslim-majority region of Chechnya -- a move some believe is a bid to boost the Kremlin's narrative of a war against a "satanic West."