Russia’s republic of Chechnya has opened its first pharmacy with separate services for men and women, the region’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov said. The new pharmacy in Grozny is the first of 15 ...

The Russian republic of Chechnya has announced a ban on music ... particularly against gay men. NPR’s Rachel Treisman writes that the new ban criminalizes the majority of dance music that ...

Over 150 Ukrainian soldiers may be held captive in Chechnya, with a high likelihood that they are in the city of Grozny. [The Chechen Republic, also known as Chechnya, is a federal subject of the ...

Rashevskaya soon found out that her husband, a native of Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, was alive and being held captive in Chechnya along with several other Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...

On 20 January, Zarema Musaeva, mother of a human rights lawyer from Chechnya (North Caucasus), was abducted from her apartment in Nizhnii Novgorod (Central Russia) by at least seven men. They spoke ...

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 ...