Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is using Chechen 'TikTok soldiers' on the front lines and to train its troops, highlighting the 'desperation' in its ...

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When 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova fled her home last year, she believed she finally had a chance to live the way she wanted. Coming from Chechnya, a conservative Muslim republic in Russia, she cut ...

Iya Rashevska was told her husband – a member of the country’s armed forces – had gone missing in the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region, in April 2023. The news of Serhiy Skotarenko’s ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

Pro-Russian Chechens are back on Ukraine's front lines, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said. Chechen units, once mocked as "TikTok" troops, are now filling gaps left by the Wagner Group. Chechen ...