But the amount paid out was meagre and insulting. Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to ...

There was just one problem with the news item: Chechnya apparently has no organized Jewish community, and according to some Jewish people who were born there, also next to no Jews. The reports ...

Chechen separatist Shamil Basayev is one of ... the September 2004 siege of a school in Beslan, ended with over 300 people dead, many of them children. Attacks such as this one, and a mass hostage ...

Russian forces have shown utter contempt for civilian lives in the breakaway republic of Chechnya ... and caused an estimated 350,000 people to flee. Russia's consistent pattern of firing on ...

The republic’s Parliament Speaker Magomed Daudov also called on the local businesses to stop selling alcohol on the territory of Chechnya. On November 27, seven people, including two girls aged ...

In April Russia’s Novaya Gazeta daily raised the issue of gay people’s civil rights being violated in the republic GROZNY, September 20. /TASS/. Chechnya’s investigative authorities have ...

The Polish prosecutor's office warned that Akhmed Zakayev would be arrested on an international warrant if he arrived in Poland to attend the third World Congress of the Chechen People that was ...

(CNN)-- At least 12 people were killed Saturday in an earthquake in Russia's Chechnya region, Russian news agencies reported. More than 100 people were injured, Interfax and Ria Novosti said ...