Posts Tagged
Russian-Chechen wars

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  2019/10/08 - 11:27 • Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  North Caucasus expert: Moscow’s actions in Abkhazia and Chechnya justify fears about...

  Those in Ukraine and elsewhere who fear that the Steinmeier plan will end by becoming the Putin plan are justified in their concerns as even the most superficial examination of what has happened elsewhere along Russia’s periphery when...

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  2019/09/12 - 11:05 • International, Op-ed

  Chechens complete ‘March for the Supremacy of Law and Justice’ at UN...

  A month ago, on the 23rd anniversary of the liberation of Grozny by Ichkerian forces, a group of Chechen activists began a “March for the Supremacy of Law and Justice” at the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg. September 6,...

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  2019/08/24 - 11:51 • International, Op-ed

  Chechen activists marching from Strasbourg to Geneva to seek justice for their...

  For the last two weeks, a small group of Chechen activists carrying Chechen, Ukrainian, Turkish, German and American flags has been marching from Strasbourg to Geneva to attract attention to the Chechen cause and seek justice and the rule...

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  2018/12/12 - 11:41 • International, More

  24 years ago, Moscow attacked Chechnya, triggering a war that changed everything

  Most people today are focusing on bidding farewell to Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the great human rights activist that Vladimir Putin is trying to coopt as one of his own, or to the centenary of the birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose slogan...

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  2018/03/25 - 18:38 • International, More, Op-ed

  Putin may soon make ‘veterans of hybrid wars’ new symbol of Russia’s...

  With the passing of the World War II generation, few of whom now remain, Vladimir Putin appears ready to make “veterans of hybrid wars” a new symbol of the idea that Russia today is “a besieged fortress” and that it must restore...

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  2017/05/10 - 11:02 • International, More

  Putin regime now entering its fifth and final phase, Yakovenko says

  Vladimir Putin’s regime, which has always been authoritarian and kleptocratic, nonetheless has evolved over the course of the last 18 years through four stages and now is entering its fifth and final one, according to Moscow commentator...

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  2017/05/07 - 11:55 • International, More

  Since 1945, Moscow has been involved in a military action on average...

  Among the many messages the Kremlin wants Russians to take away from its celebrations of Victory Day is that Moscow has arranged things so that they have lived in peace for 72 years. But in fact, Arkady Babchenko points out, the Kremlin...

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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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  2016/09/07 - 09:20 • International, More

  Russian crisis will give Chechnya another chance at independence, Bukovsky says

  Twenty-five years ago today, Chechnya declared independence from the USSR. Since then, the Chechens defeated the Russian army in one war, achieved an accord with Moscow that might have led to the realization of their dreams, saw that...

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  2016/09/03 - 11:31 • International, More, War in the Donbas

  Ukrainian War far more dangerous for Russia than even the Chechen War,...

  By fighting against separatism in Chechnya two decades ago, Aleksandr Nevzorov says, Moscow was at least promoting its interests in blocking the spread of national liberation ideas to other parts of Russia. But by invading Ukraine and...

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