Chechnya Leader's Son, 17, Becomes Head of Chechen Security Council (Reuters) - The teenage son of Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's Chechnya region and close ally of President Vladimir Putin ...

Vladimir Putin has paid his first visit to Chechnya in 13 years to visit military volunteers - who he hailed for making Russia "invincible". Mr Putin's visit came against the backdrop of Ukraine's ...

Reports that Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov is terminally ill pose a serious problem for Vladimir Putin. The Russian president is desperate to avoid instability in the North Caucasus ...

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ...

The Russian republic of Chechnya is said to have ruled that all music should "correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM)" - meaning a lot of modern western music would be banned ...

Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical ...

Rather, the order demonstrates that he has a tight grip on the previously rebellious republic and is able to exert his omnipotent power – a power that extends far beyond the borders of Chechnya ...

Armies in the recent past have conducted intense and sustained operations in urban terrain, from Stalingrad and Berlin to Grozny in Chechnya, and very recently ... robots and navigation devices that ...