An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation's victims, in the Chechen Republic's capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev ...

Authorities in Russia have been forcing gay Chechen men to fight in Ukraine by blackmailing them into “volunteering” for military service, a human rights group has claimed. SK SOS, a crisis ...

In August 2023, Russian police officers and unidentified Chechen men abducted Suleimanova from her St. Petersburg apartment, where she had been living with her ethnic Russian fiance. NC SOS said ...

In particular, in 2017-2021, Russian independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper published investigations into the regiment’s involvement in mass extrajudicial execution of 27 Chechen men in January 2017. In ...

The two men barely pay attention. They’ve heard it all before, and know they can’t change much. Benor is a veteran of the Second Chechen War. Vakha, who once served in the Georgian army, fought in ...

A Chechen immigrant planned an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin. German police said they had arrested Ahmed, a 18-year-old Chechen immigrant "with an Islamic background," who confessed to ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov ... Pavel Astakhov outraged many last week by coming out in favor of older men marrying teens. "Emancipation and sexual maturity come earlier in the Caucasus ...

On 20 January, Zarema Musaeva, mother of a human rights lawyer from Chechnya (North Caucasus), was abducted from her apartment in Nizhnii Novgorod (Central Russia) by at least seven men. They spoke ...