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BBC News
December 1, 2017
Georgia says a Chechen jihadist killed in a clash with special forces in the Georgian capital Tbilisi was the suspected organiser of a terror attack on Istanbul airport last year. Akhmed Chatayev, a member of ... Turkish authorities named Chatayev as the suspected organiser. The airport was rocked byÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
November 28, 2017
Ramzan Kadyrov, the wilful leader of Russia's southern Chechen republic, is talking about standing down. ... The former rebel who changed sides to fight for Russia during the second Chechen war of 1999-2009 has created a de facto independence beyond the ... He picks and chooses all the local officials.
Open Democracy
November 23, 2017
Due to their fear of persecution by the Chechen authorities, refugees hide their real names, and some even wear masks. Saida wears a black headscarf. Before speaking, she anxiously glances around her and suggests we go to her home. “They're looking for us,” she says, as she shuts the front door of herÃÂ ...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
November 17, 2017
The Chechen authorities are ready to forgive Movsan Eskerkhanov, the native of the republic, who in an interview with Time magazine opened up about his non-traditional orientation and the threat of persecution for it in Chechnya, and later apologized for his rhetoric. That said, the leadership of theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
November 16, 2017
One of Russia's most outspoken and powerful regional leaders, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, has called for those convicted of recruiting for a ... Local officials have also been accused of running a mass detention and torture campaign of gay citizens—something authorities have denied on theÃÂ ...
The Moscow Times
November 15, 2017
Televised apologies by Chechens who criticize the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov are a regular occurrence in the Muslim-majority North Caucasus republic. Human Right Watch reported last year that several Chechens who went against the authorities were later forced to publicly apologize to theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 13, 2017
The Chechen authorities appear to have orchestrated a purportedly spontaneous demonstration in front of the Supreme Court building last week by some 100 ... On May 6, 2016, Kadyrov traveled to Kenkhi, where he assured the predominantly Avar population that local officials accused of pocketing theÃÂ ...
Deadspin
November 10, 2017
This past April 5, Ramzan Kadyrov, the longtime head of the Chechen Republic, arrived in Bahrain for an official state visit with the kingdom's royal family. ... Over 5,000 Chechens, including the children of high-ranking officials within his government, are currently enrolled in Kadyrov's Akhmat MMA fight clubÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
While it may seem strange to discuss a Russian federal subject in the same breath as independent states, the level of Syria's recent engagement with Chechen authorities is unprecedented. Chechnya's role in Syria—and that of its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov—has grown significantly in the past year: ChechenÃÂ ...
PinkNews
September 3, 2017
... is campaigning for other Chechens to escape anti-LGBT persecution ... persecution from her family, friends and authorities because of herÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 3, 2017
Chechnya's Persecuted Gays Find Refuge in Canada ... and security officials arrested gay and bisexual men and beat and tortured them. ... He said Canada's response to the Chechen crisis showed that its government wasÃÂ ...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
September 2, 2017
Commander of Chechen special police involved in tortures of gays ... a number of international organizations appealed to the authorities ofÃÂ ...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
September 2, 2017
They demand authorities find missing Chechen singer Zelimkhan ... There is a message on the NGO's official page saying the public andÃÂ ...
The National
September 2, 2017
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced the evacuation from Iraq of ... ombudswoman Anna Kuznetsova and senior Chechen officials had met ... that the Russian authorities were trying to return 48 minors from Mosul,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 26, 2017
MOSCOW — Authorities in Russia's Chechnya Republic are claiming success in an unconventional, ... It's reality television, Chechen style.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 25, 2017
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has a track record of pressuring those who ... taken by the Chechen authorities to apologize for doing so and recant. ... The official Chechen website chechnyatoday.com quoted her as sayingÃÂ ...
BBC News
August 24, 2017
An official said a man could have two wives if that benefited the children. ... Chechen officials denied that, and some simply denied theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 18, 2017
Chechen Official Says Missing Singer Will 'Appear Soon' ... Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus, where an Islamist insurgency persists inÃÂ ...
African Independent
August 14, 2017
At nighttime in the Chechen capital of Grozny an immense fountain lights up and ... And while few may believe it possible, the authorities under Kadyrov now ... officials instead used the opportunity to push Chechnya's claims as an ... Tourist board official Dagmara Isakova insisted, however, that the regionÃÂ ...
OC Media (blog)
August 14, 2017
At the end of July, Chechen authorities reported on the progress of the Commission on the Reunification of Broken Families. They said that 'in aÃÂ ...
EUobserver
August 3, 2017
This situation can shift only if the political will of the highest officials ... "We can't say for certain, but Chechen authorities may have decided to goÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 1, 2017
Dzhambulat Umarov, press and information minister for Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, said on July 31 that Chechen authoritiesÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
July 31, 2017
Novaya Gazeta also reported that mobile phones belonging to some of those allegedly executed have been taken to Syria by Chechen officialsÃÂ ...
BBC News
July 25, 2017
The group said it pressed Chechen officials for information on the missing ... said it could not confirm the deaths because there was official silence. ... with what we know about the authorities' impunity in Chechnya, a pattern ofÃÂ ...
The Seattle Times
July 18, 2017
... foreground, leads a prayer for a delegation of Chechen officials, with Chechen ... And ordinary Chechens are likely to foot the bill, with many of them being ... have documented Chechen authorities coercing residents to make ... The Justice Ministry's official database of NGOs doesn't list a single reportÃÂ ...
CNN
July 17, 2017
In April, a Chechen government spokesman called the allegations of a ... Peskov said, according to the official Russian news agency Tass.
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
December 31, 1999
In late May, Russian authorities announced that Igor Sobol would lead ... One report stated that Chechen officials were in “panic mode” over theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
The mothers of several missing Chechen men have turned to European rights groups for help in finding their sons amid fears that some mayÃÂ ...
OC Media (blog)
March 23, 2017
Sayfulla Damayev, from the village of Savelyevskaya in northern Chechnya's Naursky District, had quarrelled with his female cousin in July 2010, because, according to him, the woman's behaviour was 'not worthy of a Chechen woman'. During the quarrel ...
The Guardian
March 22, 2017
The human rights ombudswoman, police general Tatyana Moskalkova, supported the Chechen authorities' policy of burning down the homes of insurgents' family members.
OC Media (blog)
March 21, 2017
Since the beginning of March, a major subbotnik (voluntary unpaid work) has been taking place in Grozny, aimed at cleaning up the city's streets and roads.
OC Media (blog)
March 14, 2017
The relatives of Apti Edayev, an inhabitant of the Chechen city of Urus-Martan, have been searching for him for five days already.
OC Media (blog)
March 13, 2017
Maskhadov was hiding in a bunker when, according to the official version of events, Maskhadov was shot by his nephew and bodyguard, Viskhan Khadzhimuratov.
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2017
"It doesn't stop all non-Chechen journalists from writing on Chechnya. We at Novaya Gazeta and colleagues at Caucasian Knot continue to cover abuses in Chechnya, and it makes the authorities there really angry, especially since we have a lot of ...
OC Media (blog)
March 10, 2017
The conflict began in mid-February in a penal colony in Tuva, southern Siberia; Russian 'thief-in-law' Ruslan 'Shlyapa Mladshy (Hat Junior)' Gegechkori ordered that a group of Chechens and Daghestanis be severely beaten, and the prison mosque where ...
OC Media (blog)
March 2, 2017
A memorial to Russian paratroopers killed 17 years ago in a battle with Chechen militants during the Second Chechen War has been erected near the village of Ulus-Kert, in Chechnya. The official opening ceremony was conducted in a solemn atmosphere,ÃÂ ...
OC Media (blog)
March 1, 2017
There is also a mobile pay-box available for anyone who wants to pay their debts on the spot. The Chechen authorities take other drastic actions against defaulters as well.
ReliefWeb
March 1, 2017
Since 2016, large numbers of asylum seekers, mostly from the Russian Republic of Chechnya, but also from Tajikistan and Georgia, have tried to apply for asylum in Poland at the border with Belarus.
Human Rights Watch
February 28, 2017
(Budapest) - Polish authorities routinely deny asylum seekers at the Belarus-Poland border the right to apply for asylum and instead summarily return them to Belarus, Human Rights Watch said today.
OC Media (blog)
February 28, 2017
Rosneft - the majority state-owned Russian oil company - will sell its Chechen subsidiary, Grozneftegaz, to Chechnya. According to Russian ... The Chechen authorities have pushed for many years to take control of the republic's oil extraction. Grozny ...
TASS
February 27, 2017
Following these procedures, in addition to obtaining consent from the Chechen authorities, the Russian government will hammer out instructions for the deal, the sources interviewed by Kommersant said.
Newstalk 106-108 fm
February 27, 2017
Russian authorities have charged several Chechen men with the murder, but lawyers for Mr Nemtsov's daughter said the investigation had failed to uncover who ordered the shooting.
Russia Beyond the Headlines
February 20, 2017
Since the beginning of 2017 many Chechen villages have witnessed gatherings where locals, in the presence of government representatives, have evicted families of suspected militants and terrorists.
Eurasia Review
February 11, 2017
Since mid-December, the Chechen authorities have reported a series of clashes between police and security personnel and mostly young assailants who in contrast to the Gakayevs' hardened and experienced guerrilla fighters appear to be poorly armed and ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 10, 2017
Since mid-December, the Chechen authorities have reported a series of clashes between police and security personnel and mostly young assailants who in contrast to the Gakayevs' hardened and experienced guerrilla fighters appear to be poorly armed and ...
Open Democracy
February 10, 2017
On 5 February 2000, Russian soldiers summarily executed dozens of civilians in the Chechen village of Aldy. Survivors of the massacre have no hope of finding justice, with the authorities doing everything in their power to whitewash this and other ...
Human Rights Watch
January 25, 2017
We write in advance of your upcoming pre-sessional review of the Russian Federation's compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
GEOPOLMonitor
January 24, 2017
Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov yesterday confirmed that Chechens are serving in the Russian Defense Ministry battalion of military police in Syria.
RT
January 18, 2017
Chechen authorities have detained two identity thieves who reportedly tried to extort money from a businessman by impersonating the fearsome voice of Ramzan Kadyrov.
Human Rights Watch
January 13, 2017
Russian authorities should publicly condemn these threats, ensure that no harm comes to Shvedov, and put an end to threats against and attacks on independent media in Chechnya. On January 4, 2017, ... of the Chechen Republic. "The threats by the ...
