GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Work to rebuild Russia's Chechnya region, devastated by separatist wars from the 1990s, is now virtually complete, the region's ...
Rights group: Chechen authorities have abducted human rights activist in Moscow A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human ...
The head of Russian rights group Memorial insisted Friday that the strongman leader of Chechnya was responsible for the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova, as he went on trial for defamation. Soon after the leading Memorial activist was killed in July, rights ...
Russian activist defends himself against Chechen president's defamation lawsuit A Russian human rights activist on trial over a defamation claim filed by Chechnya's strongman president said Friday he stands by his statements blaming the Kremlin-backed provincial leader for a fellow activist's slaying ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed chief of Russia's turbulent Chechnya region said his forces were fighting U.S. and British intelligence services who want to split the country apart, according to an interview published Thursday. Former rebel-turned-Moscow-ally Ramzan Kadyrov said in comments to ...
Kremlin-backed Chechen leader claims US, British intelligence services back rebels The controversial Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya claims that militants in the violence-plagued Russian province are backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies. Ramzan Kadyrov's remark was probably the bluntest claim by a ...
Several people were injured on Wednesday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up on the busy central street of Chechnya's capital, undercutting Russia's claims to have restored stability. Two police and up to six civilians were hurt in the attack on ...
Authorities in Chechnya said Friday they had averted several major attacks as they announced the detention of four youths trained as suicide bombers in the increasingly volatile region. A spokesman for Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov said police on Thursday detained four ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Monday started legal procedures to seek 10 million rubles ($316,100) in damages from the head of a Russian human rights group who claimed he ordered the murder of one of its activists. Natalia Estemirova, ...
Chechen police say 2 militants blow themselves up to escape capture, wounding 6 Chechnya was hit Friday by the third suicide bombing in the past week, part of a rising wave of violence in Russia's predominantly Muslim southern republics that appears to ...
Four police were killed in Chechnya on Tuesday when a suicide bomber walked up to their car and blew himself up, the latest attack in the increasingly violent Russian region, officials said. "Three police were killed on the spot and a fourth ...
Russia's Putin visits Chechnya, pays respects at grave of Kremlin-backed leader's slain father Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed support for Chechnya's controversial leader Monday by praising his assassinated father — the first Kremlin-backed Chechen president — and laying flowers at his ...
