News on Chechnya

Mideast Dubai Slain Chechen

2010-12-22T05:31:25Z

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2007 file photo, former Chechen warlord Sulim Yamadayev, center-left, is seen at Hankala airport, a military base outside Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia. A Dubai court on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 slashed the prison terms for two men...

APTOPIX Russia Caucasus Violence

2010-10-19T06:32:50Z

Special Force (OMON) officers are seen in front of Chechen parliament complex after a bomb blast in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, authorities said. At least three insurgents wer...

Russia Caucasus Violence

2010-10-19T02:01:17Z

Russia Violence

2010-04-03T10:00:13Z

This Feb. 10, 2010 picture provided Saturday, April 3, 2010 by Russia's Memorial human rights group shows what the group says is 17-year-old Movsar Dakhayev who was shot dead on Feb. 11 by government forces during a special operation to root out insurgents on the boundary separating Ingushetia and Chechnya. Memorial named the victim as Movsar Dakhayev, a...

APTOPIX Russia Local Elections

2010-03-31T04:01:42Z

Circled by people, Chechen regional President Ramzan Kadyrov, center, dances after he casthis ballot at a polling station at his home village, Tsentoroi, in eastern Chechnya, on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, during the first municipal elections in the restive republic which was gripped by two full-scale wars between Russian forces and separatist insurgents over the past 15 years. AP Photo/Musa Sa...