Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's oppressive regime. After losing the first and winning ...

The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality and silencing critics of both Kadyrov's and Putin's regimes. The Kadyrov family has been able to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on the Russian attack on a nursing home in the city of Sudzha, Kursk Oblast, comparing it to Russia's actions in Chechnya and Syria, as well as in ...

Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...