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2017/06/20 - 00:14 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s leading opposition figures, is coming to a close. Leonid Martynyuk, friend and colleague of the slain opposition leader, who recently received political asylum in the United...
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2017/06/03 - 01:35 •
News, Ukraine
Adam Osmayev and his wife Amina Okuyeva, Chechen volunteers who served in the Kyiv-2 police battalion fighting against Russian-hybrid forces in Donbas, agreed on an interview with a man who introduced himself as journalist Alex Werner...
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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 •
Archive
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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2017/04/07 - 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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2017/02/24 - 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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2016/10/03 - 11:11 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Ramzan Kadyrov is widely considered “one of the rulers in the North Caucasus most loyal to Vladimir Putin,” something he will only reinforce when he is the only republic head in the Russian Federation to stage an official celebration...
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