“Not in Grozny, not anywhere. Perhaps there are a few individuals, but there is no social community of ethnic Jews after the Chechen wars” of the 1990s and 2000s. Thousands died in two wars ...

Chechen identity is fiercely independent and ... Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s high school friends say he rarely talked about his ethnicity, except to quickly correct anyone who suggested he was Russian.

Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...