Anna Peisakhova is a correspondent for RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
Members of the Chechen diaspora in Europe say Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has developed an extensive network across the continent that he is using to target his perceived enemies, political and personal.
Activists in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia have filed a formal request for state investigators to probe a clinic where a 9-year-old girl underwent female genital mutilation. An advocacy group says that a formal investigation would be the first of its kind in Russia, where the practice is not banned.
