Three Chechen boys play war with wooden guns outside their home in a Chechen village near Grozny, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 1995. Their home-made toy guns are copies of the Kalashinikov rifles carried by ...

On June 12, 20-year-old Chechen native Selima Ismailova was arrested at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport as she was preparing to leave the country, fleeing what she has described as years of violent abuse at ...

Police have detained a 19-year-old Chechen woman at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport while she was on her way out of Russia to escape domestic violence, rights defenders told RFE/RL on June 12. According to ...

Russian police on Monday detained young activists protesting against the persecution of gay men in Chechnya at a May Day parade in Saint Petersburg, an AFP photographer witnessed. Recent reports of a ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings have their ethnic roots in Chechnya, a part of the Caucasus Mountains that has spawned decades of violence — from ...

People don't know what will happen to them. If everything was done according to the law, fine. If I have done something wrong, arrest me, allow me to have lawyer, take me to court. But here they ...

Today, a group of armed thugs in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, attacked Elena Milashina, a prominent journalist and a recipient of Human Right Watch’s award for extraordinary activism, and Alexander ...

MOSCOW – In a stunning return to siege-style violence in the Russian region of Chechnya, well-armed Islamist militants seized an empty school and office building Thursday before an hours-long shootout ...

Anti-LGBT demonstration, 1 April. Source: Youtube.For several weeks now, a brutal campaign against LGBT people has been sweeping through Chechnya. Law enforcement and security agency officials under ...

Chechen fighters attack police and army buildings in a town in southern Russia Thursday, near the border of Chechnya. A number of police have been taken hostage. Steve Inskeep talks with the BBC's ...

MOSCOW -- A human rights group charged Monday that government figures show dozens of Chechens disappeared or were killed in the first two months of this year, contradicting Russian claims that the ...