Andrei Besedin is a contributor to RFE/RL's Caucasus.Realities.
The Russian military appears to be firing at Ukraine from the Caspian Sea, possibly adding environmental damage on the world's largest lake to the human and material cost of Moscow's full-scale invasion.
Schoolchildren in a southern Russian town were brought together at a display to honor local men who died in the war in Ukraine -- including a repeat offender who was convicted of the brutal 2018 murder of an Interior Ministry employee. Relatives and police colleagues of the victim are irate.
Three teenage sons of Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov have often been in the spotlight, and some of their siblings have also been showered with accolades. What’s behind the prominence of the trio?
A teenager in the southern Russian city of Volgograd allegedly burned a Koran near a mosque. Authorities soon took the odd step of transferring the case to the Muslim-majority region of Chechnya -- a move some believe is a bid to boost the Kremlin's narrative of a war against a "satanic West."
