Armenian police investigators have identified two Russian citizens as suspects in the murder of a Chechen woman who was said ...

Facing what activists say is a hardening of repression inside Chechnya amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Asil and Aishat, both young women, recently fled their violent families in search of safety.

Chechnya has banned women's clothing with "masculine elements," citing tradition, but critics argue it is about control. The ban follows hot on the heels of another recent restriction banning women ...

By Elizaveta Chukharova The human rights organization NC SOS Crisis Group has launched a petition calling on Armenia to ...

A photo essay explores how young girls face questions about identity in a country that's redefining itself. More than 70 years of Soviet rule, followed by two decades of frequent warfare, inflicted a ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- A Russian colonel was convicted Friday of kidnapping and murdering an 18-year-old Chechen woman and sentenced to 10 years in a maximum-security prison. Col. Yuri Budanov, the ...

MOSCOW, July 8 (Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed head of Russia's Muslim Chechnya region has praised assailants who targeted women with paintball pellets for going bareheaded, prompting outrage on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Joseph Hancock, PhD, a professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, was quoted in a Nov. 26 Women's Wear Daily story about new regulations in Chechnya prohibiting women from ...

A grandmother visiting her grandson (an officer in a military unit stationed in Chechnya) makes friends with a group of Chechen women. Without showing the conflict directly but behind and within the ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...