Amir Sugaypov, assistant to the head of the Chechen Republic and first deputy minister for youth affairs, has called on ...

The Russian Republic of Chechnya is looking to ban music above or below a certain BPM—below 80 and above 116 BPM—in a bid to maintain cultural integrity through music, which will affect pop music, ...

On June 1st, all music that doesn’t fall between 80 to 116 beats per minute will be banned in the Russian republic. On June 1st, all music that doesn’t fall between 80 to 116 beats per minute will be ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

In the Russian republic of Chechnya, it’s now illegal to play any music that doesn’t fit into a very specific range of tempos. In the mostly-Muslim region, authorities have banned any music that isn’t ...

A Chechen warlord has added 3,000 former Wagner mercenaries to his growing forces, giving him control over a sizable force inside the Russian army. "One of the Wagner commanders with the call sign ...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled ...

Five years after the death of French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded by a Chechen Islamist, "the shock is ...