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.
Relatives of a man found dead in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan say he was kidnapped and killed and did not die in an explosion as officials say.
A lawmaker in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia has been killed.
Human rights watchdogs have slammed authorities in Russia's Chechen Republic for sentencing a former Chechen politician, Ruslan Kutayev, to four years in jail.
A mufti in Russia's volatile North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia says unknown assailants blew up his car while he was on a visit to Moscow.
Two strains of virus have been identified as being behind a recent mass illness in Russia's Chechen Republic.
A former police officer in Russia's North Caucasus region of Stavropol Krai has been found dead.
Some 50 Muslims in a detention center in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have reportedly started a hunger strike to protest conditions.
All 229 people who were hospitalized last week with poisoning symptoms in Russia's North Caucasus Chechen Republic have been released from hospitals.
Tainted springwater has been excluded as a cause of a recent mass poisoning in the Chechen Republic's eastern district of Nozhai-Yurt.
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has called on the government to pay more attention to the quality of drinking water as the number of people in the republic's east apparently sickened by tainted tap water reached 145.
Authorities in Russia's Chechen Republic are investigating a mass illness in the eastern district of Nozhai-Yurt.
Local authorities say the owner of the Versal construction company, Ruslan Muduyev, was gunned down in Daghestan's capital, Makhachkala, late on January 11.
Chechnya's First Deputy Interior Minister Apti Alaudinov has threatened to use illegal methods -- including summary killings and the planting of false evidence -- in an effort to remove Islamic fundamentalists from a former rebel stronghold in the southern Russian region.
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee's directorate in Chechnya, Sergei Bobrov, has left his post, just months after accepting it.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says a subordinate of Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov is behind attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia that killed three police officers.
A religious and civil activist has been shot dead in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Daghestan.
The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has approved plans to build the Russian republic's tallest building in a new district in its capital.
The mother of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspected Boston bombers, says neither she nor her husband will go to the United States to attend Dzokhar's first court appearance next month.
French actor Gerard Depardieu plans to make two movies in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya.
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