European Union politicians said they are continuing their push into possible support for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty after the US government moved to cut the Prague-based broadcaster's funding amid concerns its closure would be a blow to pro-democracy media.
In many parts of Russia’s North Caucasus region, Muslim women often lose custody of their children if they divorce, remarry, or become widows.
The detention of a dual Russian-American citizen has come to light in southern Russia.
All four fighters competing for world titles at UFC 311 hail from the Caucasus region. RFE/RL spoke exclusively to Georgian UFC champion Merab Dvalishvili to ask him why fighters from Georgia, Armenia and Russia's Dagestan region are so overrepresented in elite martial arts.
Nikita Zhuravel, a Russian political prisoner who was beaten by the teenage son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov while in pretrial detention, has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison on a high treason charge.
Yekaterina Neroznikova, a journalist and member of the Marem human rights group, is facing administrative charges in Russia for her alleged involvement with an "undesirable organization."
Investigators in the Russian North Caucasus region of Chechnya have launched a new probe against Zarema Musayeva, the jailed mother of three Chechen opposition bloggers in exile.
A Ukrainian drone made an incursion inside Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan, in an attempt to strike the city of Kaspiisk near the Caspian Sea.
According to an investigation by RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service, one of the men arrested in Uzbekistan last month was also imprisoned in Turkey in 2021 after being charged in an alleged plot to kill critics of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
For the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale of invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the territory of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has been targeted by drone attacks.
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.
Nikita Zhuravel, a Russian political prisoner who was beaten by the teenage son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov while in pretrial detention, has been charged with high treason.
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