Oscar nominee David France's startling depiction of the courageous effort to save Chechnya's queer community from state-sanctioned persecution was denounced by the government and went viral: "People ...

It begins as the most ordinary of stories and ends with three women who are trapped in a small apartment in a country I can’t name. If they are found here, they will be in danger, but they have ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

The history of Chechnya reflects nearly three centuries of brutal conflict with Russia over territory and independence. In the post-Soviet period, two wars - from 1994 to 1996 and from 1999 to the ...

Director David France’s 2012 “How to Survive a Plague” was to my mind one of the decade’s finest documentaries. A gripping account of ACT UP and TAG’s extraordinary lifesaving efforts during the early ...

The economic sanctions imposed by Western governments on Russia in retaliation for its annexation of Crimea in 2014, in conjunction with plummeting world oil prices, have necessitated stringent cuts ...

Islamic fundamentalism in Chechnya is a much misunderstood problem. It exists — but only as a consequence of the war between Chechens and Moscow. Both Russians and hard-line fighters have an interest ...

The twenty-seven page report, “Into Harm’s Way,” comes as Sergei Yastrzhembsky, special assistant to the Russian president, is scheduled to visit Washington to give a presentation on ...

Group fears campaign that saw dozens of gay men tortured in 2017 has restarted. Moscow -- LGBT activists say they have begun helping people flee from the Russian republic of Chechnya amid what they ...

It is hard to avoid the gaze of Russian President Vladimir Putin when traveling around the region of Chechnya. His portraits adorn public buildings, apartment blocks, highways and airport terminals, ...

When three men wearing military uniforms kidnapped Ilya last year in a forest in Russia's remote Chechnya region, he said he was scared for his life. "I was scared, because I knew what would happen ...