EADaily, September 9th, 2026. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on Chechens to shorten their beards that are too ...

Khamzat Chimaev plans to keep wrestling despite watching Umar Nurmagomedov get knocked out cold while attempting a takedown. Nurmagomedov entered his bout against Song Yadong as a heavy favourite but ...

EADaily, September 3rd, 2026. Speaking at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the increase in the birth rate a challenge for the state. The ...

Iranian state television Press TV has claimed that Chechen military units have announced their readiness to deploy to Iran to support Iranian armed forces in the event of a US ground invasion. It did ...

Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives. Released in 2023, The Cage is Looking for a Bird is ...

Chechen Leader Kadyrov Says Russia Should Fight War in Ukraine to the End MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The ‌leader of Russia's ‌Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday that he was opposed to ...

MOSCOW, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday that a Ukrainian drone had struck and damaged a high-rise building in Grozny, capital of Russia's southern Chechnya region, and ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

Chechen mixed MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev has dedicated his newly won UFC middleweight title to Adam Kadyrov, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov’s 17-year-old son. Chimaev won the title on Sunday, after ...

KRAMATORSK — The house is full of soldiers. On the floor, there are wooden boxes filled with mountains of cartridges and ammunition belts for heavy machine guns. Dozens of hand grenades are lying ...

Cannes: Déni Oumar Pitsaev travels to the proxy homeland of Pankisi and confronts his family, weighs building a house, and evades questions of marriage. In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar ...

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov said he has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to be allowed to step down from his position as leader of the Chechen Republic. "I am asking to be dismissed ...