Aishat Baimuradova fled her home last year in the hope of living the way she wanted, but she was then found dead in her rented flat.

The deaths of two women in the Caucasus region under suspicious circumstances have brought renewed attention to the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya. While being pursued outside Chechnya, which ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Chechen Republic [a federal subject of the Russian Federation - ed.] said that the 15-20 women who took part in an anti-war rally in the city of Grozny [the capital ...

(Reuters) -Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region of Chechnya on Tuesday morning after forcing their car to stop, the ...

More than 300 children were kidnapped from a school in the Western Nigerian village of Papiri in November, but in the ...

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 ...

The Russian region of Chechnya has a volatile history, and while President Ramzan Kadyrov has brought stability to the region, he has failed to promote human rights. In the past few years, attention ...

How the Laws of Fashion Made History,” said: “Historically, demands for female modesty have been common to many religions.

August 13, 2015: Russian police recently announced that they had identified and are investigating three young Chechen women for Internet based crime. In this case the three ladies were in need of some ...

The dual suicide blasts at a Moscow rock concert this weekend are the latest example of a relatively new and disturbing phenomenon -- female suicide bombers. The Kremlin was quick to blame the attacks ...