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.
Zarema Musayeva, a political prisoner in Russia’s Chechnya region and the mother of three outspoken opposition activists, has been hospitalized after her health declined seriously, according to her lawyer, Aleksandr Savin.
Emergency officials in Russia's southwestern Krasnodar region said on July 23 that a woman who was injured in a suspected gas explosion that completely leveled a shopping center in the city of Apsheronsk a day earlier had died in the hospital.
Media reports in Russia said on July 15 that a gas explosion in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya killed five people.
The former governor of Daghestan's Sergokala district, Magomed Omarov, who was fired last month after a deadly terrorist attack in which his son and nephew were implicated, was sent to pretrial detention until at least September 5.
The number of deaths following apparently coordinated attacks on June 23 that targeted Christian and Jewish religious sites and a police station in Russia's Daghestan region on June 25 rose to 21 as the North Caucasus region holds a second day of mourning.
At least 20 people were killed, including civilians and police officers, when gunmen opened fire at two Orthodox churches, two synagogues, and a police station in separate attacks in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya rejected a request by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, for an early release over her state of health.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 3 it had arrested a man suspected of being involved in a deadly hostage-taking in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, a turning point in the first of the two post-Soviet separatist wars in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
The former chairman of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, a close associate of Ramzan Kadyrov, has been appointed head of Chechnya's government.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian ruler of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, on May 21 said that the region's prime minister, Muslim Khuchiyev, had resigned to take to another unspecified job. Kadyrov named Highways Minister Isa Tumkhadzhiyev as acting prime minister.
Russian authorities added 17-year-old anti-war activist Yegor Balazeikin to the country's list of terrorists and extremists on May 15.
In an unusual move, a court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria acquitted a Jehovah's Witness in an extremism case.
The Kremlin-installed strongman leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has authorized police to shoot to kill any rioters or demonstrators in the wake of a spate of anti-Semitic outbursts across the North Caucasus in recent days.
A court in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, sentenced Russian citizen Mansur Movlayev, an outspoken critic of the authoritarian ruler of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to six months in prison for illegal border-crossing.
Zarema Yangulbayeva, the mother of a human rights lawyer, was taken from her apartment on January 20 by masked men who said they were Chechen police. The raid took place in Nizhny Novgorod, a Russian city far from Chechnya, after Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov made open threats against the family.
Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya are promising tough penalties for those who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19. There are fears that people could be refused emergency care or their children could be barred from schools or kindergartens if they don't comply.
The director of Chechnya’s state television has issued death threats against the “enemies” of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.
A daughter of a close associate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov who was forcibly removed by police from a shelter for domestic violence victims and rights activists has warned that she could be killed in an "honor killing” if she is returned to her home.
Residents of the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia are commemorating the victims of the wartime Soviet deportation of Ingush and Chechens from the North Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
A court in Russia's Krasnodar region has sentenced a 63-year-old Jehovah's Witness to 7 1/2 years in prison.
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