EXCLUSIVE: The ghosts of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal past have emerged amid his deadly war in Ukraine as a group of Chechen fighters now looks to establish their own stake in the fight. ...

A Russian lawmaker from the North Caucasus region of Chechnya has vowed to "cut off the heads" of all members of the family of Abubakar Yangulbayev, a former lawyer for the Committee Against Torture ...

Twenty years ago, as Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin launched a military operation in Chechnya that would come to define his rule and haunt it. 1 A man waving a separatist Chechen flag in ...

Two weeks ago, the Russian daily Novaya Gazeta reported mass arrests of gay men in Chechnya. The situation is horrific: more than 100 men have been detained by the police in concentration camps, and ...