URUS-MARTAN, Russia (Reuters Life!) - Clad in a shaggy white ram's wool hat and sporting a matching beard, museum founder Adam Satuyev says tiny Chechnya is undergoing a cultural revival after decades ...

For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare. The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in 2017 the Chechen government launched an outright purge against perceived ...

Aishat told her friends she had been raised in a strictly religious family When 23-year-old Aishat Baimuradova fled her home earlier this year, she believed she finally had a chance to live the way ...

DUISI, Georgia, October 1 (UNHCR) - Chechen refugees feared the worst during August's conflict between the Russian Federation and Georgia over the breakaway South Ossetia region, but their homes in ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov had life-threatening kidney issues last month but has since recovered, the head of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence agency (GUR) has said. For weeks, rumors ...

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

For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare. The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in 2017 the Chechen government launched an outright purge against perceived ...