Chechnya
Two gay men returned to Chechnya face 'mortal danger': rights group
The LGBT Network rights group helped the two Chechen men, Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isayev, flee Chechnya for Nizhny Novgorod east of Moscow in June last year...
At the wheel of a white sedan bearing the bright purple logo "Mekhkari", the name of the service launched this spring, the 49-year-old taxi driver explains the appeal of women drivers in the conservative region.
Russian authorities said on Sunday they were holding five men over the killing of Boris Nemtsov.
Gunmen attacked a police post and stormed a building on Thursday in Grozny.
The attack underlines the fragile security in Chechnya more than a decade after troops were deployed.
Five Islamist militants were arrested in another security scare weeks before the Winter Olympics.
Two seperate terrorist attacks in Volgograd have left at least 33 people dead and over 100 injured.
More violence has erupted in Russia's Northern Caucas region between Islamists and Russian forces.