Yurt, which the locals like to call the Wrestlers' Mecca, boasts the greatest concentration of wrestling champions in the ...

Aishat Baymuradova, a Chechen woman who was killed in Yerevan, has been buried in Armenia after her body remained in a morgue for several months, Sputnik Armenia reports.

During extensive rescue excavations ahead of a gas pipeline reconstruction, researchers unearthed a 3,000-year-old grave belonging to a woman adorned with an astonishing array of ancient jewelry. She ...

Two officers from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) have been injured in a drone attack on the agency's building in the Achkhoy-Martanovsky district of Chechnya on the night of 1-2 December.

A Chechen woman who was found dead in Armenia last year in what activists describe as a likely “honor killing” has been laid ...

Russian and Ukrainian media recently reported that Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya for nearly two decades, may be suffering from kidney failure and has been ...

Special forces from Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardia) recently conducted military exercises on the Kola Peninsula, using ...

Chechnya has banned women's clothing with "masculine elements," citing tradition, but critics argue it is about control. The ban follows hot on the heels of another recent restriction banning women ...

CNN — Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE) .Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE) . — Russian President Vladimir Putin will propose Ramzan Kadyrov to continue for another five years leading the republic of Chechnya, RBK daily newspaper ...