The 20-year-old Chechnyan refugee who wanted to teach at an Islamic Sunday School in Windsor has been released on bail and is ...

At least that was the story reported in the national and local media, including the Echo of Moscow radio station and Chechnya Today – the most popular news site in the predominantly Muslim ...

Dzhamilya Timaeva faces prison after being convicted of possessing footage encouraging viewers to carry out arson attacks ...

However, at her trial she denied supporting the Islamic State group or being a "terrorist", claiming her fight was in defence ...

There is family and state pressure to conform Chechnya's authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov is spearheading a campaign to reunite divorced couples, involving Muslim clerics who preach Sharia law.

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Homophobia is widespread in the highly conservative and predominantly Muslim Russian republic. Mr Kadyrov and other government figures have repeatedly claimed Chechnya has no gay population at all.

Russia’s Muslim Spiritual Administration’s Ulema Council (an advisory ... spiritual and moral values,” a source in the prosecutor’s office told reporters. Chechen authorities have previously expressed ...

"The day before, the Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic, Muslim Khuchiev, and the Minister of Industry and Energy of the region, Adam Khakimov, held a number of working meetings ...