Russia says nine insurgents in the volatile Daghestan region who allegedly were planning acts of terrorism during public holidays in May have been killed by police.
Chechnya's leader is touting the Russian republic as a great investment opportunity, but wealthy Chechens themselves aren't getting in on the action.
Belgium says it has given humanitarian visas to five gay men from Chechnya who face persecution for their sexual orientation in their native region in Russia's North Caucasus.
A Russian group that defends LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights says it has helped 114 people flee Chechnya to avoid persecution over their sexual orientation or that of their relatives in the North Caucasus region since April 2017.
The head of a regional office of one of Russia's biggest human rights group has been severely beaten in an attack condemned by Amnesty International and that the group, Memorial, said was linked to his work.
A detained opposition activist from Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia has started a hunger strike to protest being held for trial on charges of illegally possessing weapons and insulting an official.
Reports from Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya say at least six people have been killed in a helicopter crash near the border with Georgia.
Suspicion that a Russian opposition activist was poisoned in Moscow just months after a pair of poisoning cases in Britain has brought attention to a string of toxic attacks carried out against Kremlin foes in recent decades.
A court in Chechnya has prolonged pretrial detention for Oyub Titiyev, the jailed director of the prominent Russian human rights group Memorial's office in Russia's North Caucasus region.
The United States has arrested the son of a former Kyrgyz ambassador to Washington on charges including firearms trafficking and smuggling.
Two Chechen men living in the Washington area have been accused of smuggling firearms to the Russian republic.
Residents of Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia are commemorating the victims of the wartime Soviet deportation of Ingush and Chechens from the North Caucasus.
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