Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to disclose the whereabouts of a Chechen refugee who was forcibly disappeared hours after being deported to Russia from Poland last week.
The southern Russian town of Beslan has marked the 14th anniversary of a school hostage-taking attack that ended with 334 people dead after a botched rescue, including 186 children.
Germany has extradited a man from Russia's North Caucasus region back to Russia, where he faces allegations of taking part in terrorist activities in support of a banned Islamic extremist group.
A Kazakh friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been released from a U.S. federal prison after serving more than five years for obstruction of justice.
Human rights groups have urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to condemn recent threats made by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov against activists and families of alleged insurgents in the North Caucasus region.
The leader of Russia's Caucasus republic of Chechnya has pledged to ban human rights advocates from the region after being repeatedly accused of overseeing systematic rights abuses.
A man from Russia's volatile North Caucasus region shot and wounded a police officer in Moscow on August 23 and was fatally wounded by retaliatory fire, officials said.
Media reports from Saudi Arabia say Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has met with the visiting leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Russian investigators say they have launched investigations into three separate attacks that wounded several police officers in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
A court in Russia has jailed a native of the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia on terrorism-related charges.
Thousands of people have gathered in the Chechen village of Geldagen for the burial of Yusup Temerkhanov, a native of the village who died on August 3 in a Russian prison while serving a 15-year sentence for the 2011 murder of notorious Russian Colonel Yury Budanov.
Yusup Temerkhanov, a Chechen man who was convicted in the high-profile murder of former Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov, has died while serving his sentence in a penal colony in Siberia, his lawyer says.
Load more
