Human Rights Watch has criticised Hollywood actress Hilary Swank (pictured), Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and other stars for honouring Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in a move it says "trivialises the suffering" of the war-torn republic.
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The top police suspect in the 2006 murder of investigative Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested in Chechnya – but the woman's family doubts the person who ordered the assassination will ever be identified.
Former football world champion Zinedine Zidane is set to attend the inauguration ceremony of Grozny's stadium in Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya next month, a local official reported Thursday.
Chechen rebel chief Doku Umarov (picture) has claimed responsibility for last month’s deadly suicide attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, and warned that Russia will suffer more “blood and tears” in 2011 if it does not leave the region.
Chechnya's rejuvenated Islamist movement launched an attack on the parliament buildings in the region's capital, Grozny, on Tuesday. One suicide bomber blew himself up outside, but his two accomplices penetrated the building before detonating their devices. The attack shows that the insurgents' capability - and daring - to mount attacks on high-profile targets is on the increase.
Chechen police killed at least 12 rebels Sunday after an attempted raid on the home town of Moscow-backed President Ramzan Kadyrov, breaking a streak of relative calm in the tumultuous Russian republic.
He is one of Russia's most wanted men. Doku Umarov is the leader of a Chechen rebel group, and the self-proclaimed ''Emir of the Caucasus emirate''. He says he masterminded this week's double suicide bombings in Moscow...
Chechen leader Doku Umarov has said he ordered the suicide blasts in Moscow that killed at least 39 people, according to an Islamist rebel website. The self-appointed "Emir of the Caucasus Emirate" said attacks on Russia would continue.
With the double suicide bombing by two women in the Moscow metro, there is an understandable reaction of outrage to the atrocity. France 24 asks what will happen next. How will the two men at the centre of Russia’s world standing handle the next vital moves? Those behind the attack have yet to make themselves known, but all suspicion points to the volatile former southern Soviet states in the Caucuses, where war and corruption are a way of life...
