Chechnya

Gay men fleeing persecution in Chechnya have found refuge in Lithuania: Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed to BNS on Wednesday that two persons who suffered repression in the southern Russian republic have come to Lithuania.

Based on its Constitution, Russia is a federation. It is natural, given the state‘s size and regional differences. Furthermore based on social and economic indicators the federal subjects are vastly different – from Chechnya where a bloody war raged and risks of instability remain to Siberia, blesse...

The Restoration Parliament Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis has called on all Lithuanians to unite in opposing the Astravyets nuclear power plant being constructed in Belarus in his speech to mark February 16.

Russian propagandists were not long ago deriding the inability of Baltic States to defend themselves but are now seeing something different: a threat to Russia.

The Russian Investigative Committee has extended the investigation of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's murder, the lawyer of Nemtsov's family Vadim Prokhorov told TASS on Friday.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Dr. Laurynas Jonavičius, Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Involvement of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Boris Nemtsov murder. Is it the end or the beginning of Mr. Kadyrov, we asked Dr. J...

Oscar-winning French director Michel Hazanavicius is coming to Vilnius this month to present his war drama, The Search, on 31 March at Vilnius International Film Festival.

Western powers are less fearful of Putin than of the chaos and unpredictability that the massive nuclear country might sink into once he is gone, says Janusz Bugajski, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has lashed out at former oil tycoon and vocal critic of the current Russian government Mikhail Khodorkovsky for addressing the media community with a call to publish more cartoons following the terrorist attack in France.

Former Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev's son Degi Dudayev was Thursday fined with 3,250 litas (EUR 940) by a Lithuanian court on charges of forging documents.