1. Labor Day Blues
(Newsletter)

...eople have been killed in a powerful explosion in the centre of Nazran, the capital of Russia's tiny southern Ingushetia province, according to Russian news agencies. CONTINUE... Chemical agent fo...

2. 'Fighters killed' in Chechnya raid
(News/Global)

...ident, said on Thursday that instability in the North Caucasus region - which includes Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia - was Russia's biggest domestic problem. The patchwork of republics along Russi...

3. Chechen rights activist 'abducted'
(News/Global)

... activists in Chechnya and head of the Memorial group, who was abducted in Chechnya and found in neighbouring Ingushetia. Ongoing attacks against human rights activists has led Memorial and other huma...

4. Chechen leader wins libel case
(News/Global)

...rov was behind the killing of Natalia Estemirova, who was abducted in Chechnya and found dead in neighbouring Ingushetia on July 15. "The court ruled to partly satisfy Kadyrov's lawsuit against r...

5. Chechen president sues activist
(Archived/News/Global)

A leading Russian rights activist has appeared in court to defend himself against a defamation case brought by Chechnya's president.

6. Bomber attacks Russian police post
(Archived/News/Global)

...ne person has been killed after a bomb was detonated at a police checkpoint in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia....

7. Prosecutor shot dead in Dagestan
(Archived/News/Global)

A senior prosecutor in Russia's volatile Dagestan province has been shot dead outside his home, police have said.

8. Many dead in fresh Chechen attack
(Archived/News/Global)

At least four policemen have been killed and one injured in a suicide bombing Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Chechnya, according to local media.

9. Russia dam disaster toll mounts
(Archived/News/S+T)

The bodies of three more workers have been found from Russia's largest hydroelectric dam, which suffered an explosion and flooding last week, bringing the death toll to 69.

10. Russia dismisses dam blast claim
(Archived/News/S+T)

Russian investigators have rejected the claim purportedly made by a Chechen armed group that it caused the explosion at a hydroelectric dam in Siberia, which killed up to 75 people.