"One of the most surreal nights of my life," said ABC News' James Longman. One of the most surreal nights of my life started at a beauty parlor in Grozny. This city is the capital of the Chechen ...

Ukrainian drones have been reportedly downed over the barracks of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s special police regiment in the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Source: Kadyrov on Telegram ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish police said Wednesday they would arrest exiled Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev if he visits Poland as planned this week. Zakayev, viewed by Moscow as a terrorist but ...

A respected Russian newspaper says it has uncovered information that police in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya have rounded up more than 100 men suspected of homosexuality and that at least ...

Zarema Musayeva, a political prisoner in Russia's Chechnya region and the mother of three outspoken opposition activists, has been hospitalized after her health declined seriously, according to her ...

* Dubai police detain Russian suspect * Dubai police confirm Yamadayev is dead * Dubai police say organised criminal group behind murder (Adds quotes, background) By Tamara Walid DUBAI, March 31 ...

A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya rejected a request by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, for an early release ...

GROZNY, Russia, June 17 -- Police killed the top Chechen rebel leader in a special operation in his home town Saturday. Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot in the town of Argun, east of the Chechen ...

In Chechnya, a Russian man who says he was kidnapped and tortured by police has become the first openly gay witness to describe what human rights groups are calling a “gay pogrom” carried out by ...

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 4 October 2004 CPJ press release: RUSSIA: Backing off statements, Moscow police deny progress in Klebnikov case New York, October 4, 2004-Moscow police have backed away ...