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Chechen rebel leader Sadulayev killed

Police in Chechnya killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev during a special operation on Saturday, authorities said. Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, the press…

Madness of war spares few in traumatised Chechnya

Hidden from the world, deep in the endless ruins of the Chechen capital Grozny, a young man smiles at his mother through a cage door. She holds the key, but Iriskhan’s true…

Beslan mastermind thumbs his nose at Russia

He is Russia’s most wanted man, with tens of thousands of soldiers on his trail, but a year after masterminding the Beslan massacre, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev remains at…

Cellphone sales on the rise in Chechnya

An elegant young Chechen, her head bared in defiance of tradition and her feet cosseted in fine shoes, never falters in her animated cellphone conversation even when a Russian…

Chechnya buries Kremlin’s choice

Khisha was sitting 10 metres away from President Akhmad Kadyrov when she thought she heard fireworks. ”It was so quiet,” she said, sitting on the bed of her injured daughter, 14,…

Chechnya’s president assassinated

Chechnya’s pro-Russian leader Akhmad Kadyrov was killed on Sunday along with at least 31 others in a bomb attack on a Victory Day celebration in the war-torn capital of the…

Clashes kill 24 in Chechnya

A string of clashes between rebels and pro-Moscow forces in Chechnya have killed at least 24 people, including four civilians, during the past four days, officials and rebels…