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.
Investigators in France and Chechnya are trying to determine whether the Chechen-born man behind a Paris knife attack planned his rampage alone. RFE/RL has been talking to relatives and acquaintances of Khamzat Azimov about his background and possible ties to Islamic State militants.
Chechnya's leader is touting the Russian republic as a great investment opportunity, but wealthy Chechens themselves aren't getting in on the action.
Residents of Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia are commemorating the victims of the wartime Soviet deportation of Ingush and Chechens from the North Caucasus.
A multimillion-dollar ski resort in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya had to shell out more money to bring snow for its grand opening this week.
Russia's Republic of Kalmykia has marked the 74th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Kalmyks to Siberia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Karachais in Russia's North Caucasus region of Karachayevo-Cherkesia have marked the 74th anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
A senor official in Russia's Chechnya region has issued an assurance that a prominent singer whom relatives have not seen in 10 days is safe and will "appear soon."
Relatives of Zelimkhan Bakayev say the well-known Chechen singer has been missing since August 8.
The mothers of several missing Chechen men have turned to European rights groups for help in finding their sons amid fears that some may have been killed by authorities in the southern Russian region.
The Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center has handed materials regarding the fates of 13 Chechen men, who have been missing for months, to Russian Ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova and Russia's presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
A prominent Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, says he has been detained in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Relatives of a Chechen man convicted of organizing the 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya say he has died in prison.
A decision to rename the Russian Premier League soccer club Terek Grozny after the late father of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov is not sitting well with some of its fans.
A native of Chechnya who claimed in 2013 that he was tortured by police has managed to narrowly escape transfer to Grozny, the Chechen capital, following his release from custody in Russia's Bryansk region, a rights group says.
Balkars in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria have marked the 73rd anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Authorities and activists are trying to stop what they say is the mass killing of stray dogs in Russia's Daghestan region following a girl's death in what reports said was a dog attack.
Residents of the Russian region of Ingushetia are commemorating the victims of the Soviet Union's 1944 deportation of Ingush and Chechens from the North Caucasus.
The Mufti's Office in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has joined a move initiated by a lawmaker and Russian Orthodox activists to prevent a romantic film about Tsar Nicholas II from being screened in Russia.
The mufti of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has defended a fatwa adopted at an Islamic gathering in Grozny that proclaimed all nontraditional Islamic teachings across Russia as extremist.
A local deputy imam in Russia's southern Stavropol region in the North Caucasus has been slain.
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