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Near Chechnya, Tracing The Life Of A Georgian-Ukrainian Soldier

Baker Sergo Gornakashvili grew up near Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, haunted by echoes of the wars in nearby Chechnya, before trading his apron for a rifle and dying on Ukraine's front line.

International Business Times

An explosion and fire at a service station in Russia's Chechnya kills 4

An explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya has killed at least four people

The Independent UK

Putin makes surprise trip to Chechnya for first time in 13 years - three weeks into Ukraine’s Kursk incursion

Vladimir Putin has made an unscheduled visit to Chechnya, his first trip to the mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation in nearly 13 years

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Putin inspects troops with Kadyrov on first Chechnya visit since 2011

The Russian president heaps praise on Chechen fighters due to head to Ukraine to support the full-scale invasion.

Al Jazeera

Putin Visits Chechnya Amid Ukraine Conflict

Russian President Putin's visit to Chechnya amid Ukraine conflict underscores complex dynamics and strategic importance in ongoing military operations.

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‘I did not want to disappear in silence’: Chechen woman livestreamed attempted abduction by her family

Liya Zaurbekova is just one of a cohort of Chechen women who have tried to escape a deeply sexist and oppressive life

The Guardian - UK

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov shows off workout amid health rumours

Independent Russian media outlet claims strongman was diagnosed with pancreatic necrosis in 2019

The Guardian - UK

Brickbat: At a Medium Pace

The Chechen government has banned all music it deems too fast. Or too slow. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev said that from now on, all music in Chechnya must have a tempo ranging from 80 to 116 beats per minute. This includes vocal performances and music that backs dance performances.…

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Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow. These songs wouldn't make the cut

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya will only allow music between 80 and 116 beats per minute, though it's unclear how the rule will be enforced.

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Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow

Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’

The Guardian - UK

‘A gift to Moscow’: dismay as NYPD takes part in UAE Swat games with Chechnya and Belarus

Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious Chechen unit accused of war crimes in Ukraine

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Chechen warlord applauds teenage son’s violence as he grooms dynasty for power

Amid rumours of ill health, Chechnya’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov is said to be lining up his children as successors

The Conversation

Russian fascism: the six principles of Putin’s nationalist ideology

Ruscism, also known as rashism, russism or simply Russian fascism, is the ideology that forms the backbone of Vladimir Putin’s decades-long dictatorial rule. The term was coined by journalists to describe Russian ultranationalism in Chechnya and Georgia in the late 1990s. However, it began to crystallise into a fully-fledged ideology,…

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Chechnya's boss and Putin’s foot soldier: How Ramzan Kadyrov became such a feared figure in Russia

The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently authorized police to shoot to kill pro-Palestinian protesters who might take to the streets of Chechnya. The orders came in the wake of an antisemitic riot that broke out on Oct. 29, 2023, in the neighboring Russian republic of…

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Kremlin refuses to comment on footage of Chechen leader’s son beating prisoner

Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson declines to speak about video showing Ramzan Kadyrov’s son Adam, 15, attacking prisoner

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Al Jazeera

Russia deploys feared Chechen unit to police Ukrainian nuclear town

Pro-Russia Chechens accused of atrocities are trusted to work near the Zaporizhzhia power plant, Al Jazeera has learned.

Bangkok Post

Russia launches criminal probe after award-winning reporter attacked

MOSCOW - Russian investigators on Wednesday said they had launched a criminal investigation after award-winning journalist Elena Milashina was badly beaten in Chechnya.

The Independent UK

Russian journalist sustained a brain injury and fractures during a brutal beating in Chechnya

A prominent Russian investigative reporter has received a brain injury and multiple fractures when she and a lawyer accompanying her were brutally beaten by unidentified assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya

Al Jazeera

Russian reporter returns to Moscow after Chechnya attack

Russian journalist and her lawyer were severely beaten and threatened with weapons in Chechnya.

France 24

Russian journalist and lawyer beaten in Chechnya: 'The investigation will no doubt be unsuccessful'

On the morning of July 4, Elena Milashina, a journalist with the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and Alexandre Nemov, a lawyer, were beaten on their way to a trial in Grozny, Chechnya. Images document the extreme violence of the attack. According to the Crew Against Torture, a Russian human…

Evening Standard

Russian journalist and lawyer beaten by armed thugs in Chechnya

Masked assailants blocked their vehicle with cars before beating them with clubs

The Guardian - UK

Attackers break Russian journalist’s fingers and stab human rights lawyer in Chechnya

Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov were on their way to the sentencing of a human rights activist in Grozny when they were assaulted

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