‘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.
Village Yekazhevo (Timur Agirov/agirov.com)
Ingush police have charged five suspected militants arrested a year ago with ‘involvement in illegal armed formations’ and ‘illegal trafficking in arms, ammunition, and explosive devices’.
Ramzan Kadyrov (rt.com)
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced his intention to introduce official collective punishment for the relatives of suspected terrorists. He spoke about the initiative in an interview with Russia Today on 19 April.
Pictures of the victims of the siege (wikimedia.org)
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia should pay €2,955,000 ($3,100,000) in compensation to the victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege and their families. The full text of the court’s verdict was published on its website on 13 April.
A meeting with law enforcement agencies (ingushetia.ru)
Authorities in Ingushetia have introduced tightened security measures in the republic, after a bomb was detonated in the St Petersburg Metro on 3 April, killing 14 and injuring 49. Head of the republic, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, personally ordered that police take additional security measures. [Read more…]
Pictures of the aftermath of the attack circulated on WhatsApp
The official investigation into the attack on a military base in Chechnya’s Naursky District on 23 March has established that the six militants killed were local residents. Three of them were brothers. Two more militants managed to escape and are still at large.
On 21 March, local Ingush man Ilyas Albakov was detained in Ingushetia for his alleged involvement in an international terrorist organisation. According to the head of the Ingush Security Council, Akhmed Dzeytov, he is accused of being a member of the Islamic State in Syria. Other details of this case, including the time he spent with the Islamic State in Syria, have not been released.
