Chechen police raided the office of human rights group Memorial on Friday for the third time this week in connection to the internationally condemned arrest of its director, the group said in a ...

Police have detained a 19-year-old Chechen woman at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport while she was on her way out of Russia to escape domestic violence, rights defenders told RFE/RL on June 12. According to ...

2002-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Just hours before President Vladimir Putin told the nation that the war in southern Russia was over, separatist guerrillas in Chechnya killed 21 police officers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

GROZNY, Russia, June 17 -- Police killed the top Chechen rebel leader in a special operation in his home town Saturday. Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot in the town of Argun, east of the Chechen ...