The swirling rumors of Ramzan Kadyrov’s grave illness have injected a dose of uncertainty into the Kremlin’s already complex ...

Kadyrov has ruled the Muslim-majority federal republic since 2007 and enjoys "wide leeway from Putin to run Chechnya as his ...

Russian media reports that Eduard Ulman, captain of the special forces of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Russia (GRU), accused of shooting civilians in Chechnya, has been killed in Ukraine.

Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a ...

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ...

Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical ...

Chechnya is governed by Russian laws, which already heavily restrict media that contains swearing or that mentions drugs or LGBTQIA themes. The first two especially impact things like rap ...

Chechnya has banned all songs that are faster than 116 beats per minute over fears of Western rave and techno music 'polluting' the Russian republic. The Chechen government introduced the ban in a ...

Taylor Swift's iconic hit "Shake It Off" is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the Russian national anthem but both have fallen foul of a new ruling on music in Chechnya. The Russian republic ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, in response to the publication by the Russian socio-political newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe, ...

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ...