"I want to tell the truth. People are being abducted… they're being thrown into prison. And I wanted to stop this." Amin Dzhabrailov, survivor of Chechnya's anti-gay purge It was a cold, sunny Friday ...

New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the republic might be preparing for a regime change. Chechen warlord Ramzan ...

Chechnya's outspoken ruler Ramzan Kadyrov has publicly suggested the murder of his government's critics online. During a government meeting about the development of small businesses on November 5, ...

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired North American television and streaming rights to Welcome to Chechnya, the documentary by David France, the Oscar-nominated director of How to Survive a ...

GROZNY, August 7. /TASS/. Head of Russia’s North Caucasian Republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov earned a sum of 147.99 million rubles, or more than two million US dollars, in 2019, or by nearly 140 ...

The Russian socio-political newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe has reported that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is seriously ill with pancreatic necrosis with no hope of recovery. [The Chechen Republic, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov meet on Aug. 31, 2019, at Novo-Ogaryovo. (Kremlin photo) Information manipulation has become a key political tool of ...

"I was expecting that the door [was] gonna open and I’m gonna die.” Amin Dzhabrailov remembers the day vividly. He was working in his hair salon in Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya, Russia, in ...

The investigative journalism group Bellingcat says a probe into the 2019 killing of a former Chechen separatist commander in Berlin shows that the attack was planned and organized by Russia's Federal ...

HBO Documentary Films has acquired the North American television and streaming rights to Academy Award nominated director David France’s feature-length documentary Welcome to Chechnya. The film will ...

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 ...