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Russia’s financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring added Russian-Armenian tech entrepreneur Areg Shchepikhin to its list of ...
Only a few ethnic Chechens—the precise number is not known—are here because they have succeeded in winning political asylum. Ilyas Ahkmadov, the former Foreign Minister ...
This briefing paper is based on interviews with eleven ethnic Chechens who suffered human rights abuses in the wake of the hostage taking and several lawyers who represent them; staff members of ...
Ethnic Chechens Caught Up in Iraq Violence The residents of Iraq's Diyala Province include a group of Chechens whose ancestors arrived in Iraq in 1890. About 30 families remain.
70%25 of the Chechen immigrants in U.S. are women; Russia often protests when ethnic Chechens try to settle in the U.S. Austria is a magnet for Chechen immigrants%2C with about 30%2C000 ...
Chechen battalions are unique units within the Russian military, composed mainly of ethnic Chechens and known for their ...
The Tsarnaev brothers were ethnic Chechens whose family fled the breakaway republic in the remote Caucasus mountains where insurgents fought two bloody wars with Russia at the cost of more than 100… ...
The two suspects in last week's Boston Marathon bombing were identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, ethnic Chechens who had lived in the United States for the ...
A group of ethnic Chechens fleeing Russia arrived in Bosnia this week, hoping to use the Balkan country as a launchpad to reach the European Union and avoid getting sent to fight in Ukraine.
PARIS — Five ethnic Chechens from Russia have been arrested in southern France, including one with a cache of explosives, a local mayor said Tuesday as four other men appeared at a court in P… ...
A group of ethnic Chechens fleeing Russia arrived in Bosnia this week, hoping to use the Balkan country as a launchpad to reach the European Union and avoid getting sent to fight in Ukraine.
The fatal stabbing of a man in a southern Russian town has led to days of sometimes violent protests and calls for the eviction of ethnic Chechens. RFE/RL takes a look at the social tensions that ...