116: Can you feel the beat? If you’re in Chechnya, from now on you are only rocking between 80 and 116 beats per minute. That’s because a new law bans any music faster or slower than that range.

Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to Poland, he honoured the more than 20,000 Polish ...

At least that was the story reported in the national and local media, including the Echo of Moscow radio station and Chechnya Today – the most popular news site in the predominantly Muslim ...

Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...