URUS-MARTAN, Russia (Reuters Life!) - Clad in a shaggy white ram's wool hat and sporting a matching beard, museum founder Adam Satuyev says tiny Chechnya is undergoing a cultural revival after decades ...

For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare. The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in 2017 the Chechen government launched an outright purge against perceived ...

DUISI, Georgia, October 1 (UNHCR) - Chechen refugees feared the worst during August's conflict between the Russian Federation and Georgia over the breakaway South Ossetia region, but their homes in ...

When 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova fled her home earlier this year, she believed she finally had a chance to live the way she wanted. Coming from Chechnya, a conservative Muslim republic in Russia, ...

The man on the screen, 32-year-old Chechen video blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, frowns. “I’m not scared of people like you,” he says, looking into the camera. “But you people are cruel, so I’m always on ...

A man has been sentenced to life in prison in Chechnya for taking part in an attack in 2000 on Russian riot police in the North Caucasus region that left at least 40 law enforcement officers dead. The ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's Chechnya region and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Saturday that Chechen fighters had been deployed to Ukraine and urged ...