Balkars in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria are marking the 79th anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, has awarded himself the Hero of Chechnya medal.
A noted self-exiled Chechen opposition blogger who has been missing amid rumors that he was killed by people close to the Kremlin-backed authoritarian leader of Russia's Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced that he is alive.
A Chechen man detained at a Moscow airport on his way to the Netherlands has most likely been sent back to Russia's North Caucasus, where he may face torture or even death for being gay, the SK SOS human rights group said on February 16.
Lawmakers in the Russian region of Chechnya have approved a bill on changing the Chechen version of the official title of the region's authoritarian leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, into what can be translated as "father of the people."
The Kremlin released the results of the COVID-delayed 2021 census late last year, and the numbers have alarmed many among the country's non-Russian ethnic minorities, who allege they have been undercounted.
A comment on an Instagram post led to Muslim's descent into the hell of a prison in Chechnya, where he says he and other inmates were beaten and tortured. Five years after his ordeal, he describes what he went through and why.
Elina Ukhmanova, a 20-year-old physics student from Russia's Muslim-majority Daghestan region, is in hiding from her relatives. She says she ran away for the third time after spending months in a dubious rehab center undergoing "treatment" for atheism and bisexuality.
A U.S. federal appeals court appeared open to siding with convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his latest bid to reverse his death sentence.
Emran Navruzbekov, an ex-officer of the Federal Security Service in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan who defected to the European Union in 2017, says his relatives have been detained for questioning for a second time in recent days.
Police in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya have abducted and arrested about 20 civilians in the village of Alkhan-Kala, sources close to law enforcement told RFE/RL on January 9, adding that the arrested men might face extremism charges.
The former prime minister of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Magomed Abdulayev, has died after being hit by a car when he was crossing a road in the regional capital, Makhachkala.
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![“Anyone running away from their family in the [North] Caucasus...is never completely safe," according to Elina Ukhmanova, who says she has fled Daghestan after years of violence and abuse from her relatives.](https://gdb.rferl.org/034d0000-0aff-0242-58b9-08daf250c801_w66_r1.png)
