It is the first in a series of bulletins that will document violations of human rights and humanitarian law by all forces in the war in Chechnya. Russian forces have shown utter contempt for ...

It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia ...

Chechnya's head Ramzan Kadyrov has asked the ... Kadyrov also called on both sides of the conflict not to damage the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the center of Jerusalem and the mosque in Abu Ghosh named ...

(JTA) — While Russia’s mainstream Jewish leaders ... Israel’s actions at the Temple Mount, where the mosque is situated. Chechen Jews, Yunayev said, “wholeheartedly support” the sharp ...

Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced a blood feud against three politicians from Russia's volatile North Caucasus ...

In other words, in January, the Russians had more deaths in Pokrovsk alone than in the Second Chechen War. [The Second Chechen War (1999–2009) was an armed conflict between Russia and the Chechen ...

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 ...

[The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation; the Ukrainian parliament has recognised it as the temporarily Russian-occupied territory of the Chechen ...

"then Russia would be OK." Finally, at 4:00 a.m., Islam I. and his wife decided to end the crisis by giving the soldiers a pair of gold earrings, a traditional form of wealth in Chechen society.

This has been proven by the leading Islam researchers ... "The enemies of Russia want to see the Chechen Republic hit by the war," he stressed. "They want explosions to rock here and shootings ...

But such cases are considered widespread. In 2021, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) ordered the Russian authorities to reunite Chechen woman Luisa Tapayeva with her four underage children ...