RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service is one of the few independent media outlets reporting in this predominantly Muslim region, one of the most repressive and arbitrary in the Russian Federation.
Austrian police are investigating whether the murder of a Chechen asylum seeker outside the capital, Vienna, over the weekend was a political assassination or related to organized crime.
Austrian police are investigating whether the murder of a Russian asylum seeker outside the capital of Vienna over the weekend was a political assassination.
A Russian asylum seeker who was shot dead outside the Austrian capital, Vienna, on July 4 was a former Chechen separatist and a critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, sources in the Chechen diaspora told RFE/RL.
The Moscow-backed leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has denied accusations that he was behind an alleged plot to kill a Georgian journalist.
Facebook has again blocked the Instagram account of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed authoritarian leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, as well as several other accounts that he used, saying it was following sanctions imposed by the United States against many Russian officials.
A man from Russia's North Caucasus region of Karachai-Cherkessia has been charged with masterminding the financial support of a terrorist organization just as he was to be released from prison after serving a 16-year term for the attempted killing of a law enforcement officer.
Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia have sentenced 13 people to jail terms of between three and 15 days for taking part in an unsanctioned rally against measures local authorities have put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya have shaved their heads after the region's authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov did so, touting it as a way to deal with the closure of services such as hairdressers and barber shops because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia have arrested opera singer Vadim Cheldiyev for initiating anti-government rallies.
A human rights group says a well-known Chechen blogger has been assaulted in his apartment in a European country where he lives in hiding, the latest attack in Europe on critics of the leadership in Russia's North Caucasus region.
For the first time in eight years, Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has publicly commemorated the victims of the 1944 deportation on the actual day when the tragedy started.
A court in Russia has sentenced an Ingush activist to 16 months in a colony-settlement for assaulting police officers during mass rallies against a controversial border deal with neighboring Chechnya last year.
The leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has temporarily left office due to what he called his "temporary incapacitation."
A Vladikavkaz court in North Ossetia on December 16 fined a 19-year-old law student 1,000 rubles ($16) for breaking the administrative offense code concerning the public display of “Nazi paraphernalia or symbols.”
A 36-year-old man from North Caucasus region of North Ossetia has died while in police custody in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region.
Police in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya have launched a probe against a relative of authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
A blogger in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia has been attacked over his critical comments about the lavish wedding of a local businessman's son.
The family of the reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, a native of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan, has denied any involvement in the severe December 2016 beating of a mixed martial arts fighter, Rasul Mirzayev.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has extended the pretrial detention of reporter Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, who is charged with “inciting” the funding of terrorism.
A peaceful protest of more than 2,000 demonstrators took place in Elista, the capital of Russia's southwestern region of Kalmykia, on October 13 to protest the appointment of a former leader of Kremlin-backed separatists as the city's acting mayor.
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