Tag: Chechnya

The Russian LGBT Network claims four Chechen-speakers abducted Daghestan native Ibragim Selimkhanov in Moscow in May and took him for…

The unstable southern Russian republic of Chechnya is offering military-themed holidays in an unconventional attempt to attract up to 400,000…

A campaigner helping lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Chechens escape persecution has received death threats from a gang that broke…

A court in the unstable Russian republic of Chechnya is due to deliver a verdict in the trial of a…

Chechnya has launched a fresh crackdown on the gay community in which at least two have died and about 40…

The Russian authorities have released a video of the weekend suicide attack on police in Chechnya’s capital by the radicalised…

So-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated teenage attacks across Chechnya yesterday (Monday) that left four…

The Russian authorities say the police shot dead four gunmen who attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim…

The authorities in Chechnya have been accused of trying to force out Memorial, one of Russia’s leading human rights groups,…

Russia’s internet watchdog has demanded answers from Facebook and Instagram over the blocking of social-media accounts belonging to the strongman…

Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured) says he is ready to resign and let the Kremlin choose his successor. Kadyrov, 41,…

A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights criticising the Russian response to the Beslan siege which left hundreds…

Canada has granted asylum to 22 gay men and women from Chechnya since the end of June, amid a government…

Hundreds of divorced Chechen couples have been forced to make up after the regional president, Ramzan Kadyrov, black-listed marital separations…

An openly gay journalist for Russia’s only independent newspaper has appealed to a court to grant him refugee status in…