Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back. His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks. "It's a feeling like they are breaking every ...

A month after reports emerged of gay Chechen men being rounded up and sent to a prison camp in the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, a group of men who say they are survivors of the camps ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

On the 20-minute ride, Chechen men smoke with trembling hands after Poland allowed only two families and a young man through. Half the train is made up of regular cross-border travellers, but two ...