* Islam flourishing in Russia's Chechnya * Chechen leader drives Muslim revival * Chechnya encourages customs that breach Russian law By Amie Ferris-Rotman GROZNY, Russia, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Adam, 52, ...

Chechnya’s current leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin’s close ally, has not yet issued an official response to the incident. Haaretz reported that at least one person was injured in the rocket strike ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in the Russian region of Chechnya on Friday inaugurated what they said was the largest mosque in Europe in a pomp-filled ceremony attended by local and foreign officials ...

Russia's mostly Muslim republic of Chechnya is becoming a major player in rebuilding war-ravaged Syria. And ordinary Chechens are likely to foot the bill, with many of them being forced to make ...

The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently authorized police to shoot to kill pro-Palestinian protesters who might take to the streets of Chechnya. The orders came in the ...

On May 19, a short video was posted on Telegram purportedly showing an unidentified person silently burning a Koran outside a mosque in the southern Russian city of Volgograd. The post was accompanied ...

Russia’s oldest polling institution reports that most surveyed have supported the Baikal Lake as candidate for the winner in the Russia-10 competition to make the country’s... Russia’s oldest polling ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov issued a surprising response to his Telegram channel after reports emerged on Monday that a mosque named after his father was struck by a Hamas missile in the Israeli ...

GROZNY, October 9. /TASS/. Chechnya's head Ramzan Kadyrov has asked the leaders of Muslim countries to jointly call on Europe and the rest of the West to protect the Palestinians. "I am appealing to ...

Far from the front line of the war in Ukraine, battle lines of a different kind were drawn when residents of a Moscow district opposed a rumored proposal for a mosque for 60,000 worshippers by a lake ...