Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Friday released a video of himself exercising, days after Turkish media reported that he had ...

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

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.

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.

This is Chechnya behind the facade of victory declared by Russia seven months ago in its war against the separatist rebels. The Russians occupy almost all of the breakaway region, yet control ...

Nightmare in Chechnya A journey to the source of the Moscow bombings. When it comes to war, it is a natural human tendency to identify good guys and bad guys—and sometimes, it is a sensible one.

For many civilians in Chechnya, life continues much as it did before -- under a persistent cloud of fear and insecurity. To many, hopes of peace seem even more distant than they did in 1997.

For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare. The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in 2017 the Chechen government launched an outright purge against ...

KARAMAKHI, Dagestan -- This isolated southwest Russian village of dirt roads and one-story clay brick houses was profoundly peaceful, its residents say, until a Jordanian cleric named Khabib ...