A nephew of Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, has been appointed by local legislators as Grozny's mayor.
Two police officers in the Kizilyurtovsky District of Russia's volatile Daghestan region were killed on July 20 when their patrol was attacked by gunmen, a police spokesman said.
The politically charged drug-possession trial of a prominent human rights activist in Chechnya has gotten off to a halting start as jailed defendant Oyub Titiyev's lawyer did not show up on its opening day.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) says that Slovakia has extradited a Chechen man suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus.
Amid severe concern from fellow activists, the head of the human rights group Memorial's office in Chechnya is due to be tried on a drug-possession charge he contends was fabricated as a reprisal for his work in the tightly controlled Russian region.
Lawyers for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking for recordings of police interviews with a Chechen man who was killed in 2013 during a confrontation with the FBI.
The lawyer for a human rights activist jailed in Chechnya has asked for his case to be tried in a different Russian region because he said Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's negative comments about his client might prejudice the court.
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.
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