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Kadyrov

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  2018/06/16 - 11:56 • International, More

  Three largest Russian militant training facilities identified

  After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where members of that “private” armed grouping were trained. But the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel observes that “it...

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  2017/07/18 - 07:25 • International, More

  Eidman: If Kadyrov didn’t exist, Putin would have to create him

  Vladimir Putin needs Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov so that “compared to him,” the Kremlin leader will appear “in the eyes of the West to be the lesser evil,” Igor Eidman says. Thus, it works to Putin’s benefit to ascribe to...

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  2017/07/10 - 08:24 • International, More

  Moscow continues to cover up mass murder by Chechen authorities

  Novaya gazeta has made continuing contributions to exposing the vicious violence of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime against its opponents, including gays and anyone whom the Chechen leader views as getting in his way. Its latest expose of mass...

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  2017/06/20 - 00:14 • International, More

  Putin is behind the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his colleague says

  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 • More, Ukraine

  Man accused of Putin murder plot gunned down in Kyiv, attacker might...

  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 • International, More

  Moscow planning to send 60,000 Muslim troops to Syria, Saudi newspaper says

  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

  Concentration camps for gays? Fake news, claims Russian human rights official

  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 • International, More

  Kadyrov opens first concentration camp for gays since Hitler’s times

  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 • International, More

  Chechnya – a bigger threat to Russia now than it was in...

  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 • History, International, More

  On 73rd anniversary of deportation, Chechnya and Ingushetia divide on Stalin and...

  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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