Chechen militants and police officers have been abducting, torturing, and murdering activists, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and those suspected of disloyalty to the regime. In exchange for ...

the Chechen Republic’s head, said on Thursday. "Manifestations of extremism and terrorism are being curbed. Nineteen militants, including a gang chieftain, were liquidated in 2015. Professional ...

When he was prime minister in 1999, he blamed a series of deadly apartment bombings in Moscow on Chechen militants and vowed revenge. The subsequent military crackdown in Chechnya was immensely ...

But human rights activists say events like this are just veneer. The mountains have been reclaimed from militants, but Chechnya is now ruled by fear. Now Memorial itself is being forced to ...

The investigation was launched in June 1995 when Chechen militants led by Shamil Basayev took hostage 1,586 civilians, killing 129 of them. "The investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee ...

Georgia says a Chechen jihadist killed in a clash with ... Akhmed Chatayev, a member of so-called Islamic State (IS), was among three militants killed during a 20-hour siege in Tbilisi a week ...

More than 200 people were killed in the September bombings. Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put ...

Black Widows are thought to be heeding the call by Doku Umarov - a self-styled Islamist Chechen militant leader whose aim is to establish a North Caucasus Emirate - to target the Feb. 2014 Winter ...

In October 2002, Chechen militants took about 800 people hostage at a Moscow theater. Two days later, Russian special forces stormed the building with 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters killed ...

In 2021, he and seven other men were arrested in Turkey on suspicions of plotting attacks against critics of Chechen leadership. In raids on two apartments in Turkey, officials found weapons and ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin lays flowers as he visits the destroyed school, where in 2004 Chechen militants took more than 1,000 people hostage, in Beslan, North Ossetia on August 20 ...