Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The groom is approaching 50, a silver-haired boss in the Chechen strongman's feared police force. The bride is 17, a shy beauty ...

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — What makes for a proper wedding in the eyes of Chechen authorities? No gunfire, keep the men and women at a distance on the dance floor and don’t let the bride cut the cake.

MOSCOW, October 6. /TASS/. The department for culture in the Chechen capital, Grozny, has set up a watchdog to check local wedding parties amid growing concerns that they have been getting more and ...

A teenage girl whose forceful bundling into a BMW in the south of France sparked a nationwide appeal for witnesses was the victim of a traditional Chechen pre-marriage kidnapping, it emerged on Friday ...

GROZNY, Russia – What makes for a proper wedding in the eyes of Chechen authorities? No gunfire, keep the men and women at a distance on the dance floor and don't let the bride cut the cake. These are ...

Chechnya’s Culture Ministry has ordered the creation of a special police unit to ensure proper traditions are observed at weddings in the Russian region. The news agency TASS said a special morality ...