Chechnya

Attack, execution, and display: how tragedy in Chechnya turned into political message

Russia

April 15, 2025

“This is a pretext for repression and a reflection of the alarming practice of collective punishment that has become part of Chechnya’s political reality.”

Baku responds to Ramzan Kadyrov: 'Azerbaijan doesn't need assistance, but demands recognition of fact'

Azerbaijan-Russia

December 27, 2024

Azerbaijan's General Prosecutor's Office has sent officials to Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic, to investigate the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash.

Vladikavkaz shopping mall blast: One killed in suspected drone attack

North Caucasus

December 25, 2024

There have also been reports of drone attacks in neighbouring republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

Chechnya: 'special forces military tour' on day of mourning

Russia

February 05, 2021

Chechnya outraged plans to conduct a paramilitary tour on February 23 - the day of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush

Novaya Gazeta journalist and lawyer beaten in Chechnya

February 08, 2020

Elena Milashina is the author of several investigative reports on human rights violations in Chechnya

Tourism or tanks? Why Russia, Chechnya want a new road to Georgia

Georgia

January 04, 2020

Ramzan Kadyrov’s persistent proposal, Putin’s support and Georgia’s silence

Novaya Gazeta: ‘purge’ of high officials taking place in Chechnya

October 17, 2019

Those suspected of disloyalty to Kadyrov are being illegally detained and tortured

Extrajudicial executions in Chechnya

July 29, 2019

Russian Novaya Gazeta looked into how opponents of the local authorities are killed

Chechen authorities battling ‘witchcraft’, persecuting ‘witches’

July 12, 2019

Why the Chechen government is persecuting healers and ‘magicians’

How and why Chechen refugees are storming the Polish border with Belarus

July 04, 2019

Many left the Caucasus hoping for a better life, but on the way to the European Union they got stuck on a train between Belarus and Poland

Chechnya head threatens to ‘break the fingers, tear out the tongues’ of Dagestan residents protesting border changes

June 13, 2019

The territorial dispute between the two republics is escalating, as border signposts are being demolished in Dagestan

Well-known Chechen rights advocate to be released from jail before term expiration

June 11, 2019

Oyub Titiev was charged with drug possession – human rights organizations recognised him a political prisoner

Cult of the Kadyrovs – Chechen president’s hometown renamed in honour of father

May 24, 2019

The decision to name the village Akhmat-Yurt was made "at the request of local residents”

Chechnya fails in attempt to corner Gazprom to write off gas debt

April 12, 2019

The Chechen authorities insisted that if people were forced to pay their debts, this would create "social tensions and lead to protests”

Chechen human rights advocate sentenced to 4 years for marijuana possession

March 19, 2019

Oyub Titiev says that the drugs were planted on him and the case fabricated

Another human rights activist detained in Chechnya

January 15, 2018

Oyub Titiev, the head of the local Memorial human rights center may be sentenced to 10 years in prison

Chechen athlete arrested in Belarus, handed over to Chechen security services

June 09, 2017

His parents released a video appeal, requesting not to extradite him to Chechnya, after the family left Chechnya for security reasons

Grozny-sought Chechen athlete to be extradited from Belarus to Russia

June 08, 2017

Human rights activists warn there is a serious risk to his health and life

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