The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the Vatican apologized after Pope Francis described Chechens and Buryats—two ethnic minority groups in Russia—as the "cruelest" troops fighting in Ukraine.

In late February, Russian propaganda attempted to instill terror into Ukrainians by claiming that up to 70,000 Chechen fighters were headed to Ukraine to support ...

Footage of a firefight that surfaced on social media earlier this week appears to show an unusual group of combatants: Apparent Chechen volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine against Russia. CNN ...

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STORY: These soldiers on Ukraine's frontlines say their ultimate goal is to liberate a land further east - the Russian republic of Chechnya. They belong to a unit of Chechen fighters helping Ukraine ...

Activist Fatima Suleymanova is one of the most visible millennial Chechen women in modern-day politics. As a representative of the Chechen national independence movement United Force, Suleymanova ...

Pope Francis has described two of Russia’s ethnic minority groups, the Chechens and Buryats, as some of the “cruelest” troops fighting in Ukraine. The pontiff was speaking in an interview with a ...

WARSAW, Poland, December 5 (UNHCR) - Shema drags her teenage daughter down the stairs together with the wheelchair. They live on the second floor of a reception centre for asylum seekers in Poland.

A Russian military court has sentenced five Chechen men found guilty in the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov to lengthy prison terms, Russian state media agency Tass reported Thursday.

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 -- Chechen representatives and human rights officials charged today that last week's seizure of 800 hostages by Chechen guerrillas has set off a campaign of harassment against Moscow's ...