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.
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.
The foundations for a massive new mosque have been laid in the town of Shali in Russia's Chechen Republic in the North Caucasus.
Authorities in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya have announced a poetry competition to mark the 61st birthday anniversary of the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov.
