For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

Austria is deporting Chechen asylum seekers on security grounds back to Russia, where they risk being forcibly recruited to fight in the Ukraine war, court documents seen by AFP show. The Barron's ...

GENEVA, August 15 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has protested against the "unacceptable treatment" of displaced Chechens who have been forcibly moved from place to place within Ingushetia recently.

Iya Rashevska was told her husband – a member of the country’s armed forces – had gone missing in the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region, in April 2023. The news of Serhiy Skotarenko’s ...

The US peace deal for Ukraine is just setting the scene for Putin’s next war - IN FOCUS: Ukraine is being asked to give up ...

While American and Russian diplomats prepare peace talks, the war grinds on in Ukraine. At last week’s security conference in Munich, U.S. defense secretary Peter Hegseth said that negotiations have ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 9 December 2003 The ...