Join us on Part 2 of our hitchhiking journey through the Russian North Caucasus as we travel from Dagestan into Chechnya, ...

FOR A SMALL territory of 1.5m people, Chechnya has played a big role in shaping modern Russia. The Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s were the only large conflicts, among those that followed ...

Russia has criticized the United States for imposing a travel ban on Chechnya's prime minister, promising an unspecified response to the move. The Foreign Ministry issued its statement on April 26, a ...