The chief source of Putin’s dilemma is that the tragedy occurred over Chechnya, perhaps the only corner of Russia where his word isn’t necessarily law. If the incident had occurred in the skies over ...

Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...

The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality and silencing critics of both Kadyrov's and Putin's regimes. The Kadyrov family has been able to ...

Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...