An Austrian court on October 1 handed down jail sentences to three Chechen asylum-seekers -- a man, his wife, and his mother – after ruling that they tried to join Islamic State (IS) extremists in Syria.
A member of a Ukrainian nationalist group has been sentenced in Russia to 24 1/2 years in prison for fighting with Chechen separatists against Russian troops in the mid-1990s.
A North Caucasus man held in custody on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has retracted his confession, according to a local media report.
A group of around 1,500 Chechen, Uzbek, and Tajik fighters in Syria has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front, a group monitoring the war said September 23.
Republic of Daghestan head Ramazan Abdulatipov's ongoing campaign to purge the political establishment of any figures who could conceivably pose a threat to his authority has claimed a new victim.
For the past 24 years, the International Circassian Association (MChA), which has its headquarters in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR), has sought to function as a bridge between the Circassian population of the North Caucasus and the far larger diaspora comprising the descendants of Circassians expelled from their historic homeland during the brutal 19th-century tsarist wars of conquest.
The Supreme Court of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has begun hearing the case of two Ukrainian citizens charged with fighting along Chechen separatists in the 1990s.
Amid reports that Russian forces are expanding a military airport in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, Life News, a Russian website with links to the security services, carried a story that appears to set the scene for these developments.
Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov is embroiled again in a controversy stemming from his idiosyncratic interpretation of the workings of Russia's judicial system and his seemingly obsessive compulsion to position himself as defender of the interests of the country's Muslim community.
Yunus-bek Yevkurov, the Kremlin-appointed head of the Russian republic of Ingushetia, proposed measures this week intended to crack down on Islamic State (IS) recruitment and blowback.
Russia's Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society has just drafted an appeal to President Vladimir Putin to accept Circassian refugees from Syria and settle them in Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygheya, Karachayevo-Cherkessia, and Krasnodar Krai -- which constitute their historic homeland
Officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria said some 2,000 Syrians have arrived in the Caucasian territory and are seeking asylum.
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