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Chechnya cities, towns and villages
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 28, 2018
In a statement, Memorial said Sirazhutdin Datsiyev, who manages its office in Daghestan, had been struck hard on the back of the head with an unidentified object by an attacker shortly after leaving his home in the city of Makhachkala on March 28. It cited a witness as saying his attacker had jumped out ofÃâà...
The Moscow Times
March 28, 2018
Forty-one children were among the 64 victims of the fire that swept through the Winter Cherry shopping mall in the city of Kemerovo. ... teenagers were of different nationalities, I can't say which nationality exactly, but with a black beard, like those worn by [people] of the Chechen, Caucasus, nationality.".
https://en.crimerussia.com/
March 27, 2018
The former Adviser to Ramzan Kadyrov and ex-Security Chief of Aslan Maskhadov, who was declared wanted on suspicions of orchestrating several murders and attempted murders, is quietly living in Chechnya. Despite being wanted, he even takes part in meetings at the residence of the republic HeadÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 26, 2018
The rooftop of a condominium in the Chechen city of Grozny became engulfed in flames Monday, prompting the evacuation of more than 200 people. According to ... "The fire has been extinguished, the spread of fire has been prevented," says Chechnya Emercom head Ruslan Yakhyaev. "The fire areaÃâà...
New York Times
March 18, 2018
Towns and villages pour resources into the sport, hiring coaches and transforming movie theaters into gyms. ... Men from Dagestan say they have always wrestled, in traditional bouts between mountain villages. ... On weekends, wrestlers run on mountain trails, which open on picturesque views of the city.
EUobserver
March 13, 2018
The story began for us on 1st April 2017, when the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that a number of men aged between 16 and 50 had disappeared from the streets of Chechen towns and cities. According to Novaya Gazeta, the men "were detained in connection with their non-traditionalÃâà...
WHIO
March 7, 2018
MOSCOW — Authorities in Russia's province of Chechnya say that at least three people have died in a helicopter crash in the North Caucasus mountains. ... The fatalities include a man in his 60s who was pronounced dead after being pulled from a frozen lake in London on Wednesday, the city ambulance service said.
The Independent
March 5, 2018
And all this, according to Walker, while Putin's fighter jets “were bombing Grozny, raining more misery down on a city that already seemed as though it had reached total .... A large number of Chechen Islamists, fleeing the forests of Chechnya after Russia's victory, arrived in Syria to attack the regime.
The Independent
March 5, 2018
“After an attempt to seize Grozny by land ended in defeat, Yeltsin resorted to ... pounding the city from the air. Thousands of civilians died in the attacks on the capital. Two years of gruesome fighting [in Chechnya] killed tens of thousands of civilians and probably 15,000 Russian soldiers. Putin ... cementedÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2018
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is flanked by Russian Minister for North Caucasus Affairs Lev Kuznetsov, second from left, and other officials at the ... It was a triumphant day for Chechnya and its leader — the grand opening of a glitzy $115-million ski resort in the mountains that were the scene of twoÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2018
As the American-led coalition and Syrian government forces captured cities that had been held by the Islamic State, they found among the ruins a grim .... Hava Beitermurzayeva, now 22, slipped away in 2015 from her parents' home in the village of Gekhi in Chechnya to marry an Islamic State soldier sheÃâà...
Open Democracy
February 22, 2018
Satsita Yandarova, a senior lecturer at Chechnya State University, cites the following figures: “In the first years of deportation, many children did not receive ... Tsebiyev, born in the Chechen village of Makhkety, had worked as a physicist: he was a candidate of technical sciences, the co-author of a scientificÃâà...
Deadspin
February 22, 2018
Each wore a t-shirt emblazoned with a picture of the dictator's father and supposed founder of modern (post-war) Chechnya, Akhmad Hadji Kadyrov. A handful of the Chechen escorts were fellow fighters from the Akhmat Fight Club—the MMA gym funded by Kadyrov himself as an extension of his ownÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 15, 2018
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov takes part in an exhibition soccer match in Grozny in October. ... Human Rights Watch says world soccer's governing body must tackle rights abuses in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya now that the Egyptian national team selected the regional capital, Grozny,Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
February 14, 2018
He said the Chechen capital city of Grozny welcomed the servicemen with a ceremonial rally, and several servicemen received military awards. The battalion had ... Last week, Chechnya also sent 11 tons of wheat and 10,000 blankets and jackets for children and adults in various Syrian cities. Kadyrov saidÃâà...
The Moscow Times
December 31, 1999
Russian Scientist Claims He Sold Deadly Novichok Nerve Agent to Chechen Gangsters in 1990s ... A top-secret chemical research facility in the Russian town of Shikhany continued the development of a Novichok-type substance until 1994, the interrogation file cites an unnamed chemist who was presentÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Leonid Rink, who worked in a Soviet-era chemical weapons facility near the Russian town of Saratov, admitted to investigators after the killing of a Russian banker in 1995 that he sold capsules of the deadly Novichok toxin to Chechen criminals based in Moscow. Chechen mobsters with ties to Chechnya'sÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
December 31, 1999
As early February 2018 was marked by the return of the nearly four hundred man-strong Chechen military police battalion back to Russia after a year and a half deployment in the Syrian city of Aleppo, it also presents a good opportunity to reevaluate the role and specifics the Chechen element deploymentÃâà...
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