Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia 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
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia 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,… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 12 minute read Crimea International More Ukraine Russia’s imperial crackdown on the memory of indigenous victims of deportations Imperial nostalgia against the memory of victims In June 2017, a month after the 73d anniversary of Sürgünlik… byIhor Vynokurov
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion Profound contraction of ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics since 1989 The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read More Ukraine Man accused of Putin murder plot gunned down in Kyiv, attacker might be linked to Kadyrov Adam Osmayev and his wife Amina Okuyeva, Chechen volunteers who served in the Kyiv-2 police battalion fighting against… byYuri Zoria
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 9 minute read International More “Syrian strikes transform Trump from ‘ours’ to ‘another Hillary’”and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More 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
Read More 2 minute read International More ‘Islam is changing Russia rapidly and profoundly,’ Polish writer says Last week, Muslim morals police began patrolling the streets of Moscow to warn the faithful against violating the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read History of Ukraine International More On 73rd anniversary of deportation, Chechnya and Ingushetia divide on Stalin and his crimes Seventy-three years ago today, Stalin the two Vaynakh nations, the Chechens and the Ingush, thousands of whom lost… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International More Ever more Russian governors forming their own military units, not just Kadyrov Ramzan Kadyrov has gained notoriety for his formation of military units that are more under his control than… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia 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
Read More 3 minute read International More ‘Nobody talks about the Armenians anymore’ Adolf Hitler infamously observed that he believed that he could get away with killing the Jews of Europe… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Kadyrov may be loyal to Putin and Russia but most Chechens aren’t, activists say Ramzan Kadyrov is widely considered “one of the rulers in the North Caucasus most loyal to Vladimir Putin,”… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Chechen and Afghan echoes of Putin’s military operation in Syria On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s decision to introduce Russian forces into the Syrian civil war on… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read International More Lies, corruption, war, – Russians simply don’t care Dmitriy Florin took part in Russia’s operations in Chechnya, served in Russian militia’s special squad OMON, and worked… byViktoriia Zhuhan
Read More 4 minute read International More Kadyrov – leading indicator of where Putin is taking Russia, Sokolov says Today, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov is “the face of the Russian political class, the institutional basis of which is… byPaul A. Goble