RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service is one of the few independent media outlets reporting in this predominantly Muslim region, one of the most repressive and arbitrary in the Russian Federation.
Protesters in Elista, the capital of Russia's southwestern region of Kalmykia, have given authorities an October 1 deadline to remove its acting city mayor who is a former leader of Kremlin-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Two women and a man have been shown on state-run TV in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya confessing to "witchcraft."
A Russian court has extended the pretrial detention of Zarifa Sautiyeva, an activist accused of assaulting a police officer during a protest in her native North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, her lawyer says.
It started 15 years ago as a hostage taking in a small town in southern Russia. It ended three days later in bloodshed that left hundreds dead, the majority of them children, in one of the worst terror attacks in Russian history
Authorities in Russia's mostly Muslim-populated North Caucasus region of Ingushetia have issued a brochure instructing women "to be deferential" to men.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has sparked controversy with remarks about a 19th century leader of the North Caucasus resistance to Russian forces.
Daghestani reporter Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev has been officially charged with financing terrorism, a spokesman for the regional office of the Russian Investigative Committee told the TASS news agency on July 24.
A court in Kabardino-Balkaria has placed Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva in pretrial detention.
Three leading newspapers in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan have published a joint editorial on their front pages to demand the immediate release of journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, who was arrested on what they called "trumped up" terrorism charges.
Three leading newspapers in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan say they will show their support for journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, who was arrested on what they called "trumped up" charges of terrorism, by publishing special front pages.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has sent a reporter working for an independent newspaper to pretrial detention on allegations of financing terrorism, a charge his editors call absurd.
A reporter working for an independent newspaper in Daghestan has been accused of financing terrorism, a charge his editors say is absurd.
Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia have detained an activist for questioning about violence committed during unsanctioned rallies in March against a controversial border deal with Russia's neighboring region of Chechnya.
At some Russian cemeteries, gravestones reveal more than the names and ages of those buried there. At one cemetery in Stavropol, many tombstones depict the profession or hobby to which a person devoted his or her life, from the aerospace industry to construction work or motorcycling racing.
A journalist in Chechnya, Zhalaudi Geriyev, has been released from prison after serving three-year term for illegal drug possession -- a charge he has been denying since his arrest.
The holiday of the first furrow is celebrated with races, songs, and dances by the people of western and central Daghestan -- Avars, Dargins and Laks. It marks the time when the spring warmth comes and the soil is ready for sowing
Police and security forces in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia have searched homes of five activists days after mass rallies against a controversial border deal with neighboring Chechnya.
A Chechen man says he has turned himself in to police in Chechnya after admitting to causing a deadly car accident several days earlier in the Russian capital, Moscow.
Police on March 27 forcibly dispersed hundreds of demonstrators in Magas, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, where they staged an unsanctioned protest against a controversial border deal with neighboring Chechnya. Several people were injured in the clashes.
Balkars in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria are marking the 75th anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
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