EADaily, October 5th, 2025. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was awarded the title of "Hero of the Chechen Republic." Federal and local media write about this today, October 5.

Swank "deeply regrets" attending party thrown by Chechen president. Oct. 14, 2011 — -- Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank will be donating money she was paid to attend a lavish party thrown by ...

This episode investigates how Russia, despite overwhelming military power, failed to subdue Chechnya during the First Chechen War. We analyze the chaotic invasion of 1994, the fierce urban warfare in ...

Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future. By ...

The body of a missing Chechen woman who had reportedly fled domestic violence in her native republic of Chechnya to Armenia ...

DUISI, Georgia, April 15 (UNHCR) - The Georgian government has for the first time granted Chechen refugees the right to travel overseas, earning praise from the UN refugee agency for honouring its ...

The Security of Authoritarianism The New York Times' Ellen Barry says most Russians have "lost the jittery reflexes of a decade when Russians refused to board airplanes beside a veiled woman, or ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

Two police officers were killed on Tuesday in a shootout with militants in the capital of Russia's southern region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's leader, wrote on social media.