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, ...

Three professors were critical of the new set-up that authorities have advised.

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ban on ...

Chechnya has banned women's clothing with "masculine elements," citing tradition, but critics argue it is about control. The ban follows hot on the heels of another recent restriction banning women ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen head of state, has awarded his eldest daughter a medal for "strengthening relations" between the Chechen Republic and the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the ...

While women are free to wear apparel with masculine accents in most countries, that is no longer the case in the Russian republic of Chechnya, where the government has banned apparel with “masculine ...