In recent years, Abkhazia's domestic politics has been dominated by the mutual antagonism between the breakaway republic's leader and the opposition. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
A car belonging to Russian presidential hopeful Ksenia Sobchak's campaign chief in the northwestern city of Pskov has been torched in an alleged arson attack.
A multimillion-dollar ski resort in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya had to shell out more money to bring snow for its grand opening this week.
The Russian human rights group Memorial says unknown attackers have torched one of its cars in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan in the latest assault on the activists.
After he was confirmed as Makhachkala mayor, he vowed to transform Daghestan's capital. Instead, investigators allege, his power transformed him. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Russian human rights group Memorial, says police in Grozny have again searched organization's regional office in the city.
The Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has lashed out at human rights groups and rejected claims that an activist jailed on a drug charge is the victim of a fabricated allegation.
Memorial says its office in Ingushetia has been torched in a "terrorist" attack that the prominent Russian human rights group said was part of a campaign to chase it out of the North Caucasus.
A human rights activist who has been detained on a drug-possession charge in Chechnya has written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin saying that he is innocent.
A prominent opposition activist from Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia has been detained upon arrival to his native region.
Human rights activist Oyub Titiyev has been charged with drug possession and ordered jailed for two months in pretrial detention in Chechnya, a lawyer and associates said.
Oyub Titiyev worked tirelessly but quietly to expose human rights violations in the Russian region of Chechnya. Although few people outside the region had heard of him, it seems agents of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov were displeased with his activism.
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