Some experts say the transfer of Chechenneftekhimprom to Chechnya is intended to compensate for the inevitable scaling back in 2016 in light of the continuing economic crisis of funding from the federal government.
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader has pledged to punish families of Chechen emigres who protested in Austria against his iron-fisted rule. Although collective punishment and public shaming are not new in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov's latest clampdown is causing dismay among many Chechens.
It's Christmas Eve for many Orthodox and Eastern Rite Christians.
Just days after a federal minister apologized for branding three respected Daghestani weeklies as coming close to betraying Russia's national interests, a potential new threat has emerged to the publications in question.
A university lecturer who went missing in Russia's Chechnya region last month was found dead on New Year's Day.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a shooting attack late December 29 that killed one person at a historic citadel in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
Two months after announcing plans to hold a referendum on the incorporation of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia into the Russian Federation, the de facto president of the largely unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, has set a tentative timeframe for doing so.
Local officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan say that a gunman has killed one person in an attack near the historic Naryn-Kala fortress in Derbent.
A Chechen social worker who sharply criticized Ramzan Kadyrov found herself hauled over the coals by the Caucasus republic's leader on government-run TV.
Police in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan have killed three gunmen in a shoot-out.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Russia's Chechnya region, has vowed to kill whomever was responsible for the beheading of a Chechen man, purportedly shown on an Islamic State (IS) video.
An imam in Russia's Daghestan region in the North Caucasus has been killed in an attack.
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