Dagestan

"For Putin, it's kind of reasonable to send one ethnic minority group to conquer another ethnic minority group," Vladimir Budaev of the Free Buryatia Foundation told Newsweek.

In his efforts to solve one problem—boosting morale and manpower for his Ukraine campaign—Vladimir Putin has managed to create another.

Videos show women in the Dagestan region of Russia protesting days after the Russian leader ordered countrymen to fight in the war in Ukraine.

A human rights activist told the Moscow Times the 300 men who returned to Russia refused to fight in Ukraine due to issues with supplies, uniforms and weapons.

Following its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow passed a law that allows it to impose a jail term of up to 15 years on anyone spreading "false information" about the Russian army.

Russia on Sunday confirmed 8,599 new coronavirus infections and 153 deaths over the past 24 hours, marking the country's highest single day death toll of the pandemic.

The deadly stabbing attack in Dagestan follows a similar incident in Siberia that left eight people injured, according to reports.

Within less than a month since the order by the self-confessed "foot soldier of Putin," almost 1,000 divorced Chechen couples have reunited, state TV reported.

Russia's prosecutor calls for investigation into reports of female genital mutilation in the region.

Russians' fears of an awakening of Islam has created the very radicals they feared.

Russia's policies have caused extremists to spread across Russia and to the battle zones of the Middle East.

The church's former spokesman backed a cleric, supporting FGM but with some conditions.

The report, published earlier this week, found widespread evidence of FGM in the southern Russian republic.

Shots and two explosions were reported in St Petersburg Wednesday morning.

Moscow has not suffered a major attack but the Kremlin should be concerned.

A local martial artist sparked outrage after documenting desecration of a holy monument.

The Kremlin has refused to speculate on the culprits behind the attack.

Over 3,500 bank accounts were frozen in 2015, the head of Rosfinmonitoring told Vladimir Putin.

The group urges militants from the Caucasus to plan attacks and start a land grab.

Sources in law enforcement are blaming a suicide bomber, but those reports are unconfirmed.

The man was reportedly plotting attacks in Chechnya and Dagestan.

A search operation for Magomed Abdukhalikov's accomplices continues in the region.