A 16-year-old boy who reported beatings and death threats from his family has gone missing in the North Caucasus republic of ...

The republic of Chechnya’s financial dependence on the Russian federal government remains the highest in the country, with ...

Russia's military announced Thursday that Major Gen. Mikhail Gudkov was killed "during combat operations in one of the border ...

A lieutenant general, Kirillov is one of the most prominent Russian commanders assassinated by Ukraine. He was killed at the ...

On average, Russians rest for 4 hours and 7 minutes a day, but residents of the North Caucasian republics have the most free ...

The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up towards the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains, often considered the border between Europe and Asia. It is home to dozens of ...

The North Caucasus needs a microloan program. Based on my field research in the region, if there is one single, simple thing that would help the North Caucasus, it is the construction of highland ...

Over the past 15 years, Russia's North Caucasus has become a byword for war, destruction, human rights abuses, extrajudicial killings, corruption, economic collapse, and Islamic terrorism. Last ...

Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region continues to struggle with a low-level Islamic insurgency, but a heavy-handed approach to counterinsurgency has not addressed the root causes of ...

Has Doku Umarov's declaration of a North Caucasus emirate split the resistance? (RFE/RL) November 1, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- In the two years since the raids on police and security facilities in Nalchik ...

More than a year after the anti-Semitic riots, tensions in the Russian North Caucasus remain high. When an anti-Semitic mob targeted individuals of Jewish descent in Dagestan at the end of October ...