Patriarchate of Georgia (Mzia Saganelidze - RFE/RL)
Two Turkish citizens wanted in Turkey for ‘terrorism’ had been hiding in the Tbilisi residence of Georgian Patriarch Ilia II, Georgian opposition TV channel Rustavi 2 reported on 16 September. Giorgi Andriadze, an academician with close ties to the Patriarchate, has claimed that the suspects were not terrorists, but members of a persecuted ethnic minority. [Read more…]
Screenshot from a video posted by Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee, showing three militants pledging allegiance to IS.
Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee announced on 6 September that the authorities had eliminated four alleged IS-connected militants in North Ossetia, who they claim had planned to attack police.
Staropromyslovsky District Court
Dzhamalay Tazbiyev and Magomed Taramov, who were accused of attempting to travel to Syria to fight, have unexpectedly plead guilty. The trial is being held in the small hall of the Grozny’s Staropromyslovsky District Court in Chechnya. [Read more…]
Still from the video from the house where the militant was killed (Ria Novosty)
The National Antiterrorist Committee of Daghestan has confirmed the death of the leader of the Khunzakh militant group. [Read more…]
Bilal Tagirov, who was returned from Iraq to Chechnya on 2 August (grozny-inform.ru)
A group of women from Chechnya appealed on 10 August for Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to help return their daughters and grandchildren from areas controlled by the Islamic State. They also appealed to the well-known Chechen human rights activist Kheda Saratova with the same request. [Read more…]
Staropromyslovsky District Court
The trial has begun of two young men accused of attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State; both claimed in court that they were beaten and tortured, Novaya Gazeta reports. [Read more…]
‘We don’t have any gays!’ exclaims Ramzan Kadyrov in a recent interview with HBO, adding that if any were found in Chechnya, Canada should take them, so as to ‘purify our blood’. Image still via YouTube / NSBC. Some rights reserved.
Twenty-seven Europeans were executed en masse in a single night earlier this year. The lack of international reaction to this reveals not only what’s wrong with humanity, but even more acutely — the media.
Chechnya’s Prosecutor’s Office (club-rf.ru)
On 25 June, the Zavodsky District Court of Grozny sentenced a citizen of Georgia, Beslan Gaurgashvili, to three years in a penal colony for participating in the war in Syria on the side of the Islamic State.
Abukar Yandiyev awarded title by his father, Alikhan (M-1 Global)
Ingushetia remains one of Russia’s most troubled and impoverished republics, one rattled by Islamic insurgency, corruption, and a sluggish economy. However, with the president’s indirect use of mixed martial arts to enhance his republic’s image, two brothers have emerged to spearhead the movement for the betterment of Ingush society.
Karamakhi (Akhmed Ashiltinsky/odnoselchane.ru)
Four people were killed in a counterterrorist operation in the village of Karamakhi in the Buynaksk District of Daghestan on 18 May. Local police released the names of the slain men, who they claim were militants.
