A St. Petersburg woman was sentenced to 20 hours of community service on Friday after staging a protest over alleged inaction ...

Russian journalists have exposed a woman who allegedly faked being a lawer and lied about her human rights work to gain ...

An activist who picketed in support of her missing Chechen friend has disappeared after being detained by police in St. Petersburg, the human rights group NC SOS said Thursday. Lena Patyayeva staged a ...

The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti has released photos showing the aftermath of battles in Russia’s Kursk region. The ...

In many parts of Russia’s North Caucasus region, Muslim women often lose custody of their children if they divorce, remarry, ...

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 ...

Russians who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan came home to silence and stigma. There’s a very public push to make things ...

Taylor Swift's iconic hit "Shake It Off" is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the Russian national anthem but both have fallen foul of a new ruling on music in Chechnya. The Russian republic ...

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has accused Western nations of complicity in Ukrainian war crimes Read ...

I heard a loud explosion, the oxygen masks fell down and the plane shook,” Rinat Assanov told AFP, recalling the moment the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The Minister of the Chechen Republic for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information Akhmed Dudaev has denied information about the "disappearance" from the information field of the ...