Chechnya

Putin is expected to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the second time in three weeks.

"We are ready to go further on orders, to easily take Kyiv and the NATO countries," Chechen Leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote Sunday in a Telegram post.

"These rats are wanted. We have been looking for them for a long time," said Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

"They will replenish the composition of the troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said of the battalions.

The Chechen leader said that he had read "nonsense" about Putin's health condition.

The video shows Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov saying that "Western European states have made all possible attempts to destroy our state."

The secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia noted complaints of soldiers being asked to pay for weapons they lost in battle.

"After Ukraine, if we're given the command, in six seconds we'll show you what we're capable of," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.

The video shows a long line of carrier vehicles and agricultural equipment, including tractors and spare tires that are reportedly being taken to Chechnya.

Recalling the event, Irina Abramova said she and her husband were at home when they suddenly heard an explosion that destroyed half of their house.

Elon Musk was called out by Chechen politician Ramzan Kadyrov after the Tesla CEO challenged Vladimir Putin to a fight over Ukraine.

A war of words has erupted on social media between the SpaceX founder and Chechnya's warlord leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

A Ukrainian government adviser claims video shows the strongman discussing the plan. It was not immediately clear who took the footage, nor why it was leaked.

Officials said that a unit of Chechen special forces had been planning to assassinate the Ukrainian president.

The Kremlin dismissed the Change.org petition as being driven by bots, with Kadyrov at the center of threats to behead the family of a human rights lawyer.

The blogger Mamikhan Umarov, 43, a vehement critic of Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was shot dead in Vienna on July 4. Two men of Chechen origin have been arrested.

Strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov was reportedly reacting to three people returning to the Russian republic from Turkey. The number of reported cases throughout Russia has increased dramatically in the last 24 hours.

The mysterious gunman killed a former militant who fought Russian forces in Chechnya in a Berlin park last month and has since refused to talk to police.

Chair of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, made the comments at a youth forum outside of Moscow.

"It was God's will. Why did Allah give me such a long life and so little happiness?"

The Human Rights Campaign is urging leaders to end the "gay purge" in Chechnya.

"In the plain light of day, in front of the Russian authorities, Russian society and the whole world, we wave the flag with pride."

Peter Tatchell was standing holding a sign in Moscow's Red Square that read: "Putin fails to act against Chechnya torture of gay people."

"We will do everything so that our Christian, orthodox values are fortified against these sorts of threats."

The Russian leader is serving his second consecutive term, and the next presidential election he can enter will be in 2030.

Last year saw a peak in almost a quarter of a century for Russians seeking to leave their homeland for the U.S., on the grounds of persecution.

One year on from revelations about the torture of the LGBT community in Chechnya, two people who escaped persecution describe the threats they faced.

The police found three laboratories producing forged documents, seals and stamps to help people cross borders illegally.

Convicted terrorists can go to jail but those that recruited them deserve harsher sentences and "could be shot," Chechnya's leader said.

Two of Russia's outspoken politicians are squaring off over Soviet history.