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Soldiers of Russia's Chechen paramilitary groups collectively known as Kadyrovites. Belgorod, Russia, 2023. Photo via Defense Express.

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Spokesperson Ukrainian army: Russia regrouping in Kharkiv Oblast, punishing deserters

According to the spokesperson, the main task of the Ukrainian Defense Forces is to ''hold back the enemy, inflict maximum losses on them and gradually move forward to liberate Ukrainian territories.''

byBenjamin Looijen

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Latest news Ukraine

UK intel: Around 9,000 Chechen troops deployed by Russia in Ukraine

Around 9,000 pro-Russian Chechen troops are deployed in Ukraine, initially suffering heavy losses but now conducting frontline and rear operations, per UK intelligence.

byYuri Zoria

Troops from Chechnya in Ukraine. Credit: Gur.gov.ua

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Only 53% of Kadyrov’s troops in Ukraine are ethnic Chechens

Ukraine’s intelligence service has established that only 53 percent of the men who are listed as volunteers from…

byPaul A. Goble

Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-annexed Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September 22. Soon after the event, further information emerged that the clashes had involved antagonistic groups of Chechens and Crimean Tatars. Photo: Kommersant

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Are Chechens being purposefully pitted against Crimean Tatars?

Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-occupied Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September…

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Chechen activists having completed their march from Strasbourg to Geneva to attract attention to the Chechen cause and seek justice and the rule of law for their nation in front of the United Nations Headquarters building in Geneva, Switzerland. September 6, 2019. Photo: thechechenpress.com

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Chechens complete ‘March for the Supremacy of Law and Justice’ at UN HQ in Geneva

A month ago, on the 23rd anniversary of the liberation of Grozny by Ichkerian forces, a group of…

byPaul A. Goble

Chechen activists carrying Chechen, Ukrainian, Turkish, German and American flags have been marching from Strasbourg to Geneva to attract attention to the Chechen cause and seek justice and the rule of law for their nation. August 15, 2019. Photo: thechechenpress.com

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

For the last two weeks, a small group of Chechen activists carrying Chechen, Ukrainian, Turkish, German and American…

byPaul A. Goble

The ruins of Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya, in March 1995 during the Second Russo-Chechen War after multi-year Russian air and artillery bombardment.

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Pro-Chechen fighter killed in car blast in Kyiv

On 8 September at 18:08 a car blast rocked the area of Bessarabska Ploshcha in the center of…

byYuri Zoria

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Ramzan Kadyrov, the governor of Chechnya, inspecting his 'personal army' assembled at the Grozny stadium, 2015 (Image: versia.ru)

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Chechnya – a bigger threat to Russia now than it was in the 1990s, Moscow paper suggests

In the 1990s, Chechnya sought independence from Moscow, and Vladimir Putin has made the suppression of that regional…

byPaul A. Goble

A painting of Trump, Putin and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen prominently displayed at a Trump party in Moscow hosted by Kremlin functionaries to celebrate his election as US president, which was facilitated by Russia's covert meddling. Russia's meddling in French elections six month later to help Le Pen backfired and she lost to Emmanuel Macron. November 2016, Moscow, Russia (Image: mogaznews.com)

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Putin conducts his foreign policy like a special op, Melnikov says

Vladimir Putin is conducting his foreign policy like the special op of an intelligence service, reflecting both his…

byPaul A. Goble

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russia’s David and Goliath, II: Nemtsov protégé Yashin writes report on Chechnya’s Kadyrov

Ilya Yashin announced yesterday on Twitter that he was in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia’s restive republic…

byPaula Chertok

The motto of Crimea Volunteer Battalion composed of Muslim and non-Muslim former residents of the Russia-occupied peninsula is "We will return to Crimea!" (Image: slavic-islam.info)

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Contrary to Moscow’s charges, Muslims in Ukraine fight for Ukraine, not for ISIS

Russian propaganda has sought to link any group Moscow doesn’t like with ISIS as a way of justifying…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

Chechen government in exile warns G20 leaders of possible Russian-jihadist collaboration

The government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria expresses its solidarity with the people of France and expresses…

byM. Bahadırhan Dinçaslan

Russian military draftees from Chechnya (Image: kavkaz-uzel.ru)

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Moscow sending Chechens to occupied Crimea as draftees in Russian military

Many of the 774 Chechens slated to be drafted into the Russian military during the fall draft –…

byPaul A. Goble

A Chechen fighter near the burned-out ruins of the Presidential Palace in Grozny, January 1995 during the First Russo-Chechen War (Image: Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev, wikipedia.org)

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Is Putin about to begin a third Chechen war to escape Ukrainian impasse?

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement that his forces should attack anyone, “Muscovite or Stavropol resident,” who might appear…

byPaul A. Goble

Akhmed Zakayev, leader of anti-Moscow Chechens

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Anti-Moscow Chechen leader: “No thinking person can believe Chechens killed Nemtsov”

Akhmed Zakayev, who was a close aide to Dzhokhar Dudayev and who leads the anti-Moscow Chechens from London,…

byPaul A. Goble

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Exclusive: An interview with a Chechen commander fighting for Ukraine

DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine – The leader of the Chechen volunteer battalion here says Canada, the United States and other…

byBrad Bird

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International

Moscow to draft Chechens this fall and Crimean residents in the spring

The Russian general staff has announced that it will draft young men from Chechnya this fall for the…

byPaul A. Goble