Museum director blocks film crew from North Ossetian village and medieval burial ground, saying the script casts Ossetians in an "unfavorable light."
A rights activist in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia says investigators accompanied by masked officers searched his home on June 30.
Russia's national soccer team has done well in this World Cup so far, but many people in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya are unimpressed.
A Chechen man has been sentenced to prison over a deadly hostage-taking in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, a turning point in the first of the two post-Soviet separatist wars in nearby Chechnya.
Russian authorities said two alleged militants have been killed in a counterterrorism operation in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia.
Ukrainian officials initially said an alleged assassination attempt on a Chechen exile in Kyiv was linked to Russia's leadership. But prosecutors now say the colorful Russian ex-con accused of the crime was acting on "personal animus."
Akhshar Varziyev used old mining machinery to turn the power of a mountain river into electricity for his village.
A woman in Chechnya has reached what she says is her 129th birthday. If true, that would make her the oldest person ever known. But as she tells RFE/RL, her long journey has not been a happy one.
A judge in Russia's Chechnya region has extended until July 9 the pretrial detention of activist Oyub Titiyev, according to Memorial, the Russian human rights group that Titiyev heads in Chechnya.
Russia police shot dead four gunmen who attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya.
Psychoanalyst and terrorism expert Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin says an often overlooked factor in the behavior of suicide attackers is how early child-rearing practices in so-called "shame-honor cultures" stunts the development of empathy.
Investigators in France and Chechnya are trying to determine whether the Chechen-born man behind a Paris knife attack planned his rampage alone. RFE/RL has been talking to relatives and acquaintances of Khamzat Azimov about his background and possible ties to Islamic State militants.
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