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 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.
