The head of Russia's Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been awarded the military rank of lieutenant general, a military source confirmed to Sputnik on Tuesday

The head of Russia's Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, is in Mariupol, the second-largest city in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Chechen minister Akhmed Dudayev told Sputnik on Monday

Indonesians largely support the Russian special military operation in Ukraine and approve of the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian ambassador to Indonesia Lyudmila Vorobyova told Sputnik

The Kremlin disagrees with the notion that the situation in Russia's Chechen Republic is out of control, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, following an unauthorized protest in the republic's capital of Grozny against the Yangulbaev family