A major archaeological breakthrough in southern Russia is capturing global attention. Researchers believe they have located the legendary lost medieval city of Magas, once the capital of the powerful ...

The head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Alexander Kurenkov said that a government commission had classified the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unscheduled visit to Chechnya, his first trip to the mainly Muslim republic within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two officers from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) have been injured in a drone attack on the agency's building in the ...

The beat goes on, but much of Taylor Swift’s, Beyoncé’s and even the Beatles’ back catalogs could be off playlists in Chechnya after the Russian republic instituted limits on musical tempo. Subscribe ...

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 ban on ...

Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on January 21 that the detained mother of a prominent human rights lawyer faces a "real prison sentence," the Chechen authorities "will take care of" ...

Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities and towns are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did this twice — against fellow Russian citizens — in Chechnya in the 1990s ...

Russia’s declaration last week that its counterterrorist operation in Chechnya is over effectively brings down the curtain on a war that began in 1999. The news is being feted in Russia and Chechnya ...