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Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has released а video showing his teenage son, Adam, assaulting a man accused of burning a Koran, an assault that the Kremlin declined to condemn.
The Kremlin-backed leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has published a new video on social media amid speculation his health is failing and he had been hospitalized in a coma.
A Russian court has sentenced a notorious gangster from Russia's Republic of North Ossetia in the North Caucasus, Aslan Gagiyev (aka Dzhako), to life in prison for his role in several murders.
The Supreme Court of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has mitigated the prison sentence of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists.
A Russian court on September 12 sentenced journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev from the North Caucasus region of Daghestan to 17 years in prison on charges of financing terrorism that he and his supporters reject as politically motivated.
A military court in the Russian city of Sochi has sentenced two soldiers to terms of at least two years in penal colonies for refusing to return to the war in Ukraine.
Six Ukrainians who were forcibly removed from Kherson by the Russian military are trapped in a buffer zone between Russia and Georgia.
Russian officials added self-exiled Chechen activist Abubakar Yangulbayev to its list of "extremists and terrorists" on August 30.
At least 35 people have been killed in a powerful explosion that rocked a gasoline station in the city of Makhachkala in Russia's Daghestan region.
Russia’s bailiff service has issued data on debt-relief granted to former Russian inmates who served in the Storm Z unit in the war in Ukraine.
Several members of the Chechen diaspora in Switzerland on August 9 held a protest outside a deportation center in Zurich calling on the Swiss authorities not to deport to Russia a Chechen refugee who has been on hunger strike for almost two months.
Self-exiled Chechen opposition activist Abubakar Yangulbayev said on Telegram on August 7 that four of his relatives were forcefully sent by Chechen authorities to serve in the Russian armed forces in the war in Ukraine.
A memorial in central Kazakhstan honoring Akhmat Kadyrov, the late Kremlin-backed leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, has reportedly been vandalized.
A court of appeals in Russia's southwestern city of Krasnodar has canceled the sentence of pianist Mikhail Selitsky for the "Putin Is A Thief" graffiti he painted on a building in the city.
A military court in Moscow has sentenced 12 associates of a notorious gangster from Russia's North Ossetia region in the North Caucasus to prison terms between 12 years and life.
Imprisoned Russian anti-war activist Darya Polyudova has been placed in punitive solitary confinement after guards said they found a razor blade in her belongings.
Russian artist Filipp Kozlov, aka Philippenzo, told RFE/RL that he was arrested at a Moscow airport over the weekend upon his arrival from Georgia and later sentenced to 15 days in jail on a charge of refusing to follow a police officer's orders.
A nephew of the authoritarian ruler of Russia's region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been made the new head of Danone's Russian operations after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree giving the state the right to "temporarily take over" the Paris-based multinational's subsidiary.
The head of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Sergei Melikov, said on July 18 that a sports stadium in the regional capital, Makhachkala, named after two-time Olympic pole-vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva must be renamed after she publicly stated that she is "a person of the world."
An award-winning Russian investigative journalist from Novaya Gazeta and a lawyer were badly beaten by armed men during a trip to Chechnya, the human rights group Team Against Torture reported on July 4.
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