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The wounds of the 1944 deportation still fester in Chechnya and beyond
Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to Poland, he honoured the more than 20,000 Polish ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency7y
Chechnya’s Jewish community doesn’t exist — but it’s angry at Israel
At least that was the story reported in the national and local media, including the Echo of Moscow radio station and Chechnya Today – the most popular news site in the predominantly Muslim ...
Human Rights Watch8y
Russia's War in Chechnya: Victims Speak Out
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...
Human Rights Watch8y
Executive Summary
Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take ...
Stars and Stripes8d
Poland’s Tusk plans large-scale military training for all adult males ‘in event of war’
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday that his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the ...