Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DONETSK OBLAST — Moscow has fought bitterly to avoid giving up control over the lands it conquered over the centuries — and made ...

A Chechen warlord has added 3,000 former Wagner mercenaries to his growing forces, giving him control over a sizable force inside the Russian army. "One of the Wagner commanders with the call sign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the ...

MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Islamist militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a bombing that derailed a Russian express train, killing 26 people, according to the website KavkazCenter.com. The ...

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ban on ...

Statements by Ruslan Kutayev — president of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus and a member of the PACE platform representing Russia’s indigenous peoples — are generating widespread debate in the ...

A human rights organization claims that a popular Chechen pop star was tortured and executed on direct orders from the republic’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Zelimkhan Bakaev, 25, had been living in ...

Jan 25 (Reuters) - The brother of Moscow's most wanted guerrilla says Islamist rebels in Russia's southern borderland are planning to hit economic targets and are getting arms and money funneled ...