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Elena Milashina, known for her work on human rights, was assaulted along with Alexander Nemov, a lawyer. A Russian investigative journalist and a lawyer were severely beaten in the southern [...]

A film about persecuted gay and lesbian Chechens uses digital manipulation to guard their identities without losing their humanity. The step raises familiar questions about nonfiction movies. When the documentarian [...]

SHALAZHI, Russia -- At the wedding of Ibragim Arsanov and Zarema Bashayeva, plum and pear trees were in bloom and the snowy peaks of the Caucasus Mountains formed a picturesque [...]

MOSCOW -- First, two television reporters vanished. Then a waiter went missing. Over the past week, men ranging in age from 16 to 50 have disappeared from the streets of [...]

MOSCOW -- When people disappear in the Russian republic of Chechnya -- rights activists, journalists and government critics -- there is usually no public discussion. Certainly, no word about it [...]

MOSCOW -- Cheered on by a small crowd, masked men vandalized the offices of a human rights advocacy group in Grozny, the capital of the Russian region of Chechnya, on [...]

Chechnya's Instagram-addicted leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, sternly advised Chechen men to bar their wives from using another popular messaging service, WhatsApp, in a lecture broadcast this week on state television. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED GROZNY, Russia -- They never go out alone, and when they are in their small apartment here in the capital of Chechnya, a flat screen on the wall [...]

Two members of a nonprofit group in the Chechnya region may have been kidnapped Monday, Russian news agencies reported. The two worked for Save the Generations, an organization that provides […]

Gunmen attacked a police convoy in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Sunday, killing at least five officers and wounding four others, investigators said Monday. Maryam Nalayeva, a spokeswoman for […]

The Russian authorities nearly completed their effort to shut down a refugee camp today near the Chechen border, ignoring international pleas to keep it open, and human rights advocates expressed […]

Doctors Without Borders, the medical charity, called today for the United Nations to take measures to improve the deteriorating conditions for 180,000 Chechen refugees spending their third winter homeless. The […]

Officially, the tent city that houses war refugees here is called the Southern Point of Provisional Location, and once, that name might actually have fit. But nothing is provisional about […]

Western nations today gave a first indication of the price they may be ready to pay for Russian support in the fight against terrorism as Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, […]

Vladimir Kalamanov may have the toughest job in Russia. As the Kremlin's special envoy for human rights, his task is to persuade a skeptical West that Russia is serious about […]

'Artillery ready?' Lt. Col. Yuri Budanov shouted. 'On the planned targets!' came the reply. 'Merry Christmas!' A thunderous blast reverberated through this Chechen town as Russian artillery fired a salvo […]