Caucasus.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
Experts say evidence indicates that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane may have been hit by a ground-to-air missile over Russia’s Chechnya region before crossing the Caspian Sea and crashing near Aqtau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 passengers and crew.
A relative of the late leader of the short-lived Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was reportedly abducted and detained in the Russian North Caucasus region after he posted Dudayev's picture on Instagram.
A court in Russia's southwestern region of Volgograd on September 11 sentenced a former Wagner mercenary group fighter to eight years in prison for beating his wife to death.
The city of Beslan in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia is holding three days of "Silence and Mourning" to mark the 20th anniversary of a deadly school hostage-taking attack.
Novaya gazeta Europe newspaper cited sources on August 13 as saying that Temirlan Eskerkhanov, one of the five men imprisoned for their roles in the assassination of an opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in 2015, is guarding industrial facilities in Russia-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
The widow of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was shot dead in Berlin in late August 2019, said she and her family had not been informed about the plan to take her husband's killer out of a German prison and send him back to Russia as part of a prisoner swap.
Prosecutors asked a military court in Russia to sentence two alleged members of the late Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev’s group to 24 years in prison each over their alleged participation in a terrorist attack in Chechnya in 2005.
Officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria said on July 22 that eight local residents have each been ordered to pay a 3,000 ruble ($34) fine for "violating regulations on the use of Russia's national anthem."
The former sports minister of the Russian North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Magomed Magomedov, was hospitalized over the weekend with what local media reports said were self-inflicted cuts after he attempted suicide in a Moscow detention center.
Austrian media reported on July 11 that a native of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan who was suspected of being a member of the Islamic State's Khorasan branch committed suicide hours before being deported to Russia.
The chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in Russia's southwestern Rostov region, Dmitry Berzrukikh, and his deputy resigned following a hostage-taking incident at detention center No.1 in the regional capital, Rostov-on-Don, last month.
The Interior Ministry in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria said on July 9 that 10 residents of the city of Tyrnyauz had been detained for being members of a so-called "Shari'a patrol."
An official in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan said over the weekend that a former district governor who was fired last month after a deadly terrorist attack, in which his son and nephew were implicated, and jailed for 10 days for "hooliganism" was rearrested on July 5 on fraud charges.
Chechnya’s strongman leader has appointed another close relative to a top position in the government of the North Caucasus region.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya again rejected a request by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, for an early release.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Akhmed Zakayev, a former top official of the short-lived independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria who resides in London, on charges of the "creation of a terrorist grouping in the interests of Ukraine's armed forces, and the justification of terrorism."
Although President Vladimir Putin has declared 2024 the Year of the Family, activists and victims of domestic violence say Russian police and prosecutors routinely ignore complaints and even pressure victims not to pursue charges.
A 19-year-old from the North Caucasus region of Chechnya has fled Russia after leaving home to escape domestic violence, a member of Russia's Public Monitoring Commission and Human Rights Council said.
Magomed Daudov, a close associate of the authoritarian ruler of Russia's Chechnya region in the North Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, resigned as the speaker of the Chechen parliament on May 15 after serving in the post for nine years.
Captain Eduard Ulman of Russia's military intelligence, who was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for shooting to death six Chechen civilians in 2002, has been killed in the war in Ukraine.
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