First-time writer-director Malika Musaeva is set to make history at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, where her female-centered coming-of-age drama “The Cage is Looking for a Bird” is ...

MOSCOW — The Russian government warned that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s new Chechen-language news broadcasts could feed extremism in the troubled North Caucasus region. Alexei K. Volin, deputy ...

There will be no Radio Free Chechnya, at least not in the near future. Less than 48 hours before the Chechen service of Radio Liberty was supposed to go on the air in late February, the Broadcasting ...

On Chechen Language Day, Aslan Doukaev, the director of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service (and a trained linguist), talks about the particular challenges -- and deeply romantic side -- of his native ...

Students in Grozny learning the Chechen language The 9th of August will mark the beginning of the second decade of the UN's observation of the World's Indigenous Peoples -- an international day ...