Russia?s road to political and economic stability has been a long and trying one for a country unique in many ways to the rest of the world. With its large, extremely heterogeneous population, massive ...

Chechen separatists declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Following years of internal turmoil in Chechnya and a failed coup attempt against Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Boris ...

The 56-page report, “‘Like Walking a Minefield’: Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia’s Chechen Republic,” describes how local authorities punish and humiliate people who show dissatisfaction with ...

It has recently been reported that Chechnya has been imprisoning men because they are gay. They are being sent to what seems to be concentration camps, where they are tortured and murdered. Seeing ...

Polina Ibrayeva is now a frail old lady with sparkling brown eyes. Seventy-three years ago, she was a three-month-old infant suddenly uprooted from the Chechen mountain village where she was born and ...