The veteran politician who heads Russia's Daghestan region is facing criticism after suggesting that some school employees in the North Caucasus republic look like "cows."
Russia's Investigative Committee says an accidental grenade explosion killed a child in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
A gay rights group in Russia has filed a defamation suit against the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta over its reports on the persecution of homosexuals in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
Isa Yamadayev, who seven years ago accused Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov of ordering the murders of his brothers Ruslan and Sulim, has been charged in absentia with plotting the revenge killing of Kadyrov, according to the news portal Rosbalt.
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A leading reporters' advocacy group has called on Russian authorities to do more to investigate threats against a newspaper for its reporting about gay men allegedly being rounded up in Chechnya.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia must pay nearly 3 million euros to relatives of victims of a school siege that left 334 people dead in the southern town of Beslan.
Amid worrying reports of a campaign of persecution against homosexuals in Chechnya, three gay men tell of the physical and mental abuse they escaped.
Italy's Foreign Ministry says it is seeking information about reports alleging that authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya have been abducting, torturing, and killing gay men in an apparently coordinated campaign.
Russian investigators say two traffic policemen have been killed after their vehicle came under fire in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region.
The United States has said it is "increasingly concerned" by reports that authorities in the Russian region of Chechnya are detaining gay men and in some cases torturing or killing them.
A spokeswoman for European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called for an investigation into allegations that authorities in the Russian region of Chechnya have been abducting, torturing, and even killing gay men in an apparent coordinated campaign.
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