Authorities in Russia have been forcing gay Chechen men to fight in Ukraine by blackmailing them into “volunteering” for military service, a human rights group has claimed. SK SOS, a crisis ...

Kadyrov sent Chechen men to fight alongside Russian soldiers in the now more than three-year-old war in Ukraine that Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour. In comments ...

A Dubai court convicted two men on Monday of involvement in the 2009 assassination of Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai. It handed them a life sentence. The men, Makhsood Jan ...

This unit, with a strength of 300-400 men, was largely composed of rebels who have accepted amnesty. To separate the Vostok Battalion from the government, it was attached to the Russian Army's 42nd ...

Chechen authorities have allegedly detained and are torturing an estimated 200 men perceived to be homosexual. According to Human Rights Watch, Chechen officials and clerics have threatened the ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a ...

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 ...

NALCHIK, Russia -- A Chechen rebel has been sentenced to life in prison for numerous crimes, including torture and killing Russian servicemen. Salaudin Temirbulatov was convicted of killing ...

April 8 (Reuters) - A man wielding a knife was killed after attacking a police station in Chechnya on Tuesday, along with one of the station's officers in the Russian Caucasus region, officials said.