2002-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Just hours before President Vladimir Putin told the nation that the war in southern Russia was over, separatist guerrillas in Chechnya killed 21 police officers ...

SARANSK, Russia -- Coming home from Chechnya to the placid streets of this provincial capital, Sergei Myasnikov and the other men in his elite Russian police unit thought only of losing themselves in ...

Police have detained a 19-year-old Chechen woman at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport while she was on her way out of Russia to escape domestic violence, rights defenders told RFE/RL on June 12. According to ...

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Chechen police and security officers detained Musayeva in January 2022 in her apartment in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, some 1,800 kilometers from Chechnya, and forcibly returned her to the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The groom is approaching 50, a silver-haired boss in the Chechen strongman’s feared police force. The bride is 17, a shy beauty reportedly devastated at the idea of wedding a man nearly ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish police said Wednesday they would arrest exiled Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev if he visits Poland as planned this week. Zakayev, viewed by Moscow as a terrorist but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone struck the roof of a police barracks in Russia's Caucasus region of Chechnya early on Thursday, ...

Update: On October 25, the Fifth General Jurisdiction Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk rejected the appeal. (Berlin) – Two men, whom police tortured in Chechnya, are appealing their conviction on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Getty Images Ukrainian drones have been reportedly downed over the barracks of Chechen leader Ramzan ...

GROZNY, Russia, June 17 -- Police killed the top Chechen rebel leader in a special operation in his home town Saturday. Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot in the town of Argun, east of the Chechen ...

MOSCOW — At least four police officers were injured Monday in a series of attacks in the mountain republic of Chechnya, Russian law enforcement authorities said, raising fears of renewed violence in ...