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.
Police in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Daghestan have rounded up some 50 patrons of a fitness center in Makhachkala and taken them into custody.
Investigators from Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya have joined an investigation into a recent attack against rights activists and journalists in the neighboring region of Ingushetia.
Residents of Ingushetia are remembering the victims of the Soviet Union's 1944 deportation of Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus.
A university lecturer who went missing in Russia's Chechnya region last month was found dead on New Year's Day.
An imam in Russia's Daghestan region in the North Caucasus has been killed in an attack.
Security was tight as the imprisoned former mayor of Makhachkala, capital of Russia's restive Daghestan region in the North Caucasus, was led into a courtroom for a new trial on murder and terrorism charges.
Large posters with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's portrait that were placed in public spaces earlier this week in Daghestan's capital, Makhachkala, have been removed.
A man in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya is facing trial for the killing of his daughter.
A man accused of buying food for a militant in Russia's Chechnya region faces trial on charges of acting as an accomplice to armed outlaws.
A local physician and lawmaker has been gunned down in the Caspian port city of Derbent in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
A prominent opposition activist from Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia has been detained in neighboring Chechnya.
A prominent opposition activist in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia has been attacked in neighboring Chechnya.
Some 20 thousand people gathered in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan -- Makhachkala, for Mevlid -- celebrations of Prophet Muhammad and his heritage.
A huge crowd turned out in the capital of Russia's tightly controlled, mostly Muslim Chechnya region for a demonstration against "insulting the feelings of religious believers."
Turkish media reports said on January 14 that two natives of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan have been questioned by police over a suicide bombing in Istanbul last week.
A blogger in Daghestan region has been placed in detention over an explosives-possession accusation that his family says is false.
Complaints by displaced residents have prompted Russian authorities to assess damage inflicted by military and security forces during an operation targeting suspected militants in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
A nongovernmental organization representing the parents of the nearly 200 children killed at a school in the Russian town of Beslan 10 years ago say they are seeking justice abroad as Russian courts have failed them.
A spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, is denying reports that more than 1,000 people were searched or interviewed in an attempt to recover the leader’s lost mobile telephone.
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