Hundreds of families in Chechnya have yet to bury relatives who disappeared in the two wars that devastated the region in Russia’s North Caucasus more than a decade ago. Ahead of the International Day of the Disappeared, marked on August 30, RFE/RL spoke to one couple still waiting for their son to be returned to them -- dead or alive.
A former mayor of Daghestan’s capital, Makhachkala, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Russian media published two very different reports this week about Russian citizens who returned home allegedly after fighting alongside the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria -- one was jailed for 14 years, the other walked away free.
The investigation into the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has become a skirmish in a broader battle for power and influence between federal law-enforcement authorities and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Russian officials have added the Human Rights Defense Center based in Chechnya to the country's list of "foreign agents."
The jury trial of three men charged with the 2004 murder of Karachayevo-Cherkessia Republic Deputy Prime Minister Ansar Tebuyev has ended with the acquittal of two of the defendants and the conviction of the third, on whose reportedly inconsistent and contradictory testimony the case was largely based.
A Chechen who returned home after fighting in Syria has been touted in the Russian press as a repentant ex-member of Islamic State, even though he never actually fought alongside the militant group.
A deputy imam of a village in Russia's Stavropol Krai region in the North Caucasus has been slain.
The first-ever Chechen soap opera, a low-budget series tailored to family viewing titled Call Of The Heart, has premiered in Grozny.
The Boston Marathon bomber is seeking a new trial, telling a federal court that "unrelenting" bad publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial in Boston.
The death last week in a counterterror operation in central Daghestan of Caucasus Emirate (IK) leader Magomed Suleymanov (aka Abu Usman Gimrinsky) has been widely construed as the coup de grace for an organization already weakened over the past nine months by the large-scale defection of its fighters to the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).
The protracted standoff in Daghestan between Republic head Ramazan Abdulatipov and Imam Yaraliyev, mayor of the southern town of Derbent, has ended with the latter’s purportedly “voluntary” resignation.
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