ONE of Putin’s top henchmen nearly drowned on Thursday while on holiday in Turkey, reports have claimed. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is said to have lost consciousness after entering the ...

"Memory," Vladlena Sandu's war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of ...

Grozny is expanding its network of Muslim educational institutions by increasing the number of Islamic schools and inviting well-known teachers from around the world. Even Grand Mufti Salakh Mezhiev, ...

Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov was on the verge of death while on vacation in Turkey. The incident occurred on the afternoon ...

RusHydro has completed and commissioned the 10MW Tower Hydroelectric Power Station in the Chechen Republic. The facility is ...

Films from parts of the world plagued by war and other hardships dominate the Venice Film Festival’s independently run ...

Congressional researchers and foreign policy analysts have long tracked a connection between the Chechnya region and Islamic extremists with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. If the Boston bombing ...

In February 2024, Akhmat received his first ministerial posting as Chechnya's minister for youth and sports, a job given to him after less than two years of leading the region's state-backed youth ...

For the last year and a half, Chechnya has been conducting an anti-gay purge. Men have been kidnapped, tortured, and, in several cases, killed.

Amid reports that he is gravely ill, the long-time ruler of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, made a rare public appearance over the ...

Since then, Chechnya has undergone a striking transformation. Its cities have been rebuilt with money from Moscow. All traces of its separatist rebellion have been suppressed.

In Chechnya, these men say they fear for their lives because they're gay Two men, who agreed to speak with "Nightline" in secret, say they were targeted for being gay and had to go into hiding.