Lidia Mikhalchenko is a correspondent for Caucasus.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
In many parts of Russia’s North Caucasus region, Muslim women often lose custody of their children if they divorce, remarry, or become widows.
Most of the members of Ukraine's OBON special-purpose battalion fought against Moscow in the first and second Chechen wars. For the Chechen separatist fighters who took part in the liberation of Kherson, Vladimir Putin is the "enemy of the civilized world."
