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Chechens
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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,…
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…
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…