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EurasiaNet
April 3, 2018
The announcement comes amid an apparent growth in diplomatic activity between Tbilisi and Grozny. In January, the mayor of Grozny paid a secret visit to Batumi, Georgia's second-largest city, to meet with unnamed Georgian officials. The subject of the meetings is still unknown, but the visit followed in theÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 26, 2018
Shocking photos showed the entire roof of the building alight, with huge black clouds of smoke billowing into the air of the Chechnya city. Firefighters and ambulance crews rushed to the scene in Russia's south-west region before extinguishing the blaze. Officials believe no one has been injured althoughÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 24, 2018
IN A STATEMENT released via Islamic State's Amaq News Agency on 21 March, the group claimed responsibility for an attack targeting police officers in the Russian Federation's capital Grozny on 20 March, BBC Monitoring reported. Official media reports stated that one police officer had been woundedÃâà...
Long War Journal
March 23, 2018
The Islamic State's Amaq News Agency has claimed responsibility for a small-scale attack in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on Mar. 20. Amaq released a short statement yesterday (Mar. 21) saying an Islamic State “fighter” assaulted police in the city. The so-called caliphate's propaganda arm thenÃâà...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
March 12, 2018
An expert from the Chechnya Interior Ministry came to the conclusion that two cigarettes that were seized on a balcony of the Grozny office of the Memorial human rights center contained marijuana, lawyer Pyotr Zaikin told Mediazona. According to the lawyer, this became known two weeks ago. Zaikin alsoÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
March 8, 2018
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...
Belarus News (BelTA)
March 5, 2018
MOSCOW, 5 March (BelTA) - A large fair of Belarusian goods got underway in Grozny, in the square in front of the Heart of Chechnya mosque. It features a wide range of Belarusian-made food products and apparel, BelTA learned from the website of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia. The BelarusianÃâà...
StopFake.org
March 2, 2018
The report detailed state-sponsored discrimination against gays in Russia generally, and also gross abuses targeting gays in Chechnya. Amnesty cited victim and eyewitness accounts of persecution, including the torture and murder of gay men in the Chechen capital Grozny and other parts of the republicÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2018
GROZNY, Russia — Every day, Belant Zulgayeva gets a knot in her throat watching her grandchildren play their violent games, what she calls their “little war.” They talk very little, but they run around, hide and, occasionally, slam one another to the ground with a disturbing ferocity. Ms. Zulgayeva is on theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 15, 2018
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, as the location for its base camp during this summer's World Cup in Russia. “Chechnya is now part of theÃâà...
Gulf Business News
February 6, 2018
Flights will leave Sharjah International Airport at 1:00pm and arrive at Grozny International at 4:10pm. The return journey will leave Grozny at 5:15pm and land in Sharjah at 7:50pm. “Expanding our Russia network, to include the new state capital of Grozny, forms an important part of Air Arabia's ongoingÃâà...
gulfnews.com
February 6, 2018
The launch, which is from April 20, will increase Air Arabia's Russia network, having recently expanded with the addition of flights to a second airport in Moscow, Sheremetyevo International. The route to Grozny will operate three times a week, Air Arabia said. The carrier currently operates flights to 140Ãâà...
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
Titiev is the Grozny director of Memorial, the Russian human rights group that seeks justice for civilian victims of the Chechnya wars. It's the last remaining human rights group that works openly in Chechnya, after Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, turned this republic of Russia into an enclave of fear,Ãâà...
OC Media (blog)
December 31, 1999
Oyub Titiyev became head of Memorial's Chechen team at a difficult moment. His predecessor was Natalya Estemirova, who was abducted from her apartment in Grozny in July 2009, driven to Ingushetia and murdered. Titiyev was then working in Memorial's office in Gudermes, Chechnya's second largestÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
In the most recent crackdown, Chechen police last month arrested Oyub Titiyev, who works for the human rights group Memorial, heading its office in the capital, Grozny, and charged him with possession of marijuana. If convicted, Titiyev faces 10 years in jail. Titiyev's defenders say he is a devout, teetotalerÃâà...
TASS
December 31, 1999
MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. The work presentation of Chaborz M-6, a high cross-country mobile tactical buggy, was held on Saturday in the Chechen capital Grozny, the region's head Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his VKontakte page. "On Saturday, a very important event took place, which is of great significance forÃâà...
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