The Latest Breaking News from Chechnya

Liya Zaurbekova is just one of a cohort of Chechen women who have tried to escape a deeply sexist and oppressive life

Independent Russian media outlet claims strongman was diagnosed with pancreatic necrosis in 2019

The Chechen government has banned all music it deems too fast. Or too slow. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev said that from now on, all music in Chechnya must have a tempo ranging from 80 to 116 beats per minute. This includes vocal performances and music that backs dance performances.…

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya will only allow music between 80 and 116 beats per minute, though it's unclear how the rule will be enforced.

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Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’

Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious Chechen unit accused of war crimes in Ukraine

Amid rumours of ill health, Chechnya’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov is said to be lining up his children as successors

Ruscism, also known as rashism, russism or simply Russian fascism, is the ideology that forms the backbone of Vladimir Putin’s decades-long dictatorial rule. The term was coined by journalists to describe Russian ultranationalism in Chechnya and Georgia in the late 1990s. However, it began to crystallise into a fully-fledged ideology,…

The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently authorized police to shoot to kill pro-Palestinian protesters who might take to the streets of Chechnya. The orders came in the wake of an antisemitic riot that broke out on Oct. 29, 2023, in the neighboring Russian republic of…

Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson declines to speak about video showing Ramzan Kadyrov’s son Adam, 15, attacking prisoner