Police in St. Petersburg are investigating the disappearance of a Chechen woman who was forcibly sent back to Chechnya last year as a possible murder, the SK SOS human rights group said on April 8.

The dual suicide blasts at a Moscow rock concert this weekend are the latest example of a relatively new and disturbing phenomenon -- female suicide bombers. The Kremlin was quick to blame the attacks ...

Facing what activists say is a hardening of repression inside Chechnya amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Asil and Aishat, both young women, recently fled their violent families in search of safety.

MOSCOW, July 8 (Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed head of Russia's Muslim Chechnya region has praised assailants who targeted women with paintball pellets for going bareheaded, prompting outrage on ...

GROZNY, Russia — The bull-necked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved ...

ARGUN, Russia -- Just before sunrise one morning this month, a dozen armed men in camouflage uniforms and black masks burst into the house of Zalpa Mintayeva, shouting, "Do you have a man at home?" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While women are free to wear apparel with masculine accents in most countries, that is no longer the case in the Russian republic ...

A police station in Chechnya – Photo: Lily Lin, via Wikimedia. Several men and women have been detained in Russia’s Chechnya region on suspicion of being gay, signaling yet another renewal of efforts ...

The Russian region of Chechnya has a volatile history, and while President Ramzan Kadyrov has brought stability to the region, he has failed to promote human rights. In the past few years, attention ...

In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy challenges conventional thinking on why they fight and are willing to kill themselves in the name of Allah. His book ...

The Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus mountains is one of the most conservative and closed places in Russia – Copyright AFP Alexander NEMENOV Facing what ...