The suspects who allegedly carried out the Boston Marathon bombings — Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev — are from a war-torn and turbulent region of Russia known as Chechnya, according to reports.

At least that was the story reported in the national and local media, including the Echo of Moscow radio station and Chechnya Today – the most popular news site in the predominantly Muslim ...

Russian law enforcement authorities have suspended a criminal investigation into the violent assault on award-winning journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya, media reported ...

Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...

An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation's victims, in the Chechen Republic's capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev ...

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Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...