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2017/05/18 - 11:46 •
Analysis & Opinion, Military analysis, Russia
Citing unnamed “informed sources,” a Saudi newspaper says that “Russia has prepared approximately 60,000” predominantly Sunni Muslim soldiers from the North Caucasus to dispatch to Syria, a dramatic expansion in the limited Chechen...
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2017/04/19 - 11:23 •
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Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsman, says that she has determined that Moscow media reports about the mistreatment of LGBT people in Chechnya should not be believed because Chechen officials say they are untrue and add...
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2017/04/09 - 12:27 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/04/07 - 12:34 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has not only sponsored direct attacks on members of the LGBT community in his republic but has adopted a plan for “the final solution of gay issue” and opened the first concentration camp in the world for...
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2017/04/04 - 09:27 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
In the 1990s, Chechnya sought independence from Moscow, and Vladimir Putin has made the suppression of that regional insurgency a centerpiece of his claims for public support. But now, in 2017, Nezavisimaya gazeta suggests, that North...
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2017/03/08 - 08:23 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Last week, Muslim morals police began patrolling the streets of Moscow to warn the faithful against violating the norms of their religion, just one of the ways in which “Islam is changing Russia” rapidly and radically. In an essay for...
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2017/02/24 - 05:55 •
Analysis & Opinion, History, Politics
Seventy-three years ago today, Stalin the two Vaynakh nations, the Chechens and the Ingush, thousands of whom lost their lives in the process before being allowed to return to their North Caucasus homeland after the dictator’s death. But...
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2017/02/21 - 20:56 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics
Ramzan Kadyrov has gained notoriety for his formation of military units that are more under his control than that of Moscow, but what is often ignored is that other governors, albeit in somewhat less flamboyant fashion, have been forming...
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2017/01/15 - 09:20 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Vladimir Putin is conducting his foreign policy like the special op of an intelligence service, reflecting both his own biography and Russia’s fundamental weaknesses, weaknesses that mean Russia no longer has “its two traditional...
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2016/11/13 - 13:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Adolf Hitler infamously observed that he believed that he could get away with killing the Jews of Europe because “nobody talks about the Armenians anymore” and the way that they were killed in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. If the world...
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