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 ...
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30 years since start of First Chechen War, Kadyrov's Chechnya remains one of the most brutal places on Earth
Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's oppressive regime. After losing the first and winning ...
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 ...
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The Chechen factor complicates efforts to ease Azerbaijani-Russian tension
The chief source of Putin’s dilemma is that the tragedy occurred over Chechnya, perhaps the only corner of Russia where his word isn’t necessarily law. If the incident had occurred in the skies over ...
Amnesty UK3y
Russia: Lawyer’s Mother Detained In Chechnya
On 20 January, Zarema Musaeva, mother of a human rights lawyer from Chechnya (North Caucasus), was abducted from her apartment in Nizhnii Novgorod (Central Russia) by at least seven men. They spoke ...