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Dead Europeans are only news sometimes [Opinion]

21 July 2017 by Dominik K. Cagara

‘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.

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Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: capitalism, chechnya, extrajudicial killing, gay, lgbt, mass murder, media, media freedom, murder, north caucasus, novaya gazeta, queer, ramzan kadyrov, terrorism

Georgian citizen convicted in Chechnya for terrorist activities

26 June 2017 by OC 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.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: chechnya, court, georgia, islamic state, syria, terrorism

Socialisation through sports: how Ingush politicians used MMA as an optical illusion

31 May 2017 by Karim Zidan

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.

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Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: ingushetia, mma, socialisation, sport, terrorism, yandiyev, yunus-bek yevkurov

Four alleged militants killed in Daghestan

19 May 2017 by OC Media

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.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: counterterrorist operation, daghestan, karamakhi, militants, terrorism

Five suspected militants charged in Ingushetia

18 May 2017 by OC Media

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’.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: illegal armed formations, ingushetia, militants, police, terrorism, yekazhevo

Kadyrov officially sanctions collective responsibility for families of terrorists

20 April 2017 by OC Media

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.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: chechnya, collective responsibility, eviction, ramzan kadyrov, terrorism

European court fines Russia for Beslan school siege

14 April 2017 by Sulkhan Bordzikashvili

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.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: beslan, chechnya, echr, north ossetia, russia, school, terrorism

Security tightened in Ingushetia after St Petersburg bombing

4 April 2017 by OC Media

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…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: anti-terrorism, ingushetia, russia, security, terrorism, terrorist attack

Chechen militants ‘extrajudicially executed’ in attack on Russian base

27 March 2017 by OC Media

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.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: attack, chechnya, islamic state, militants, military base, ramzan kadyrov, terrorism

‘Islamic State militant’ detained in Ingushetia

22 March 2017 by OC Media

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.

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Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: ingushetia, islamic state, militant, terrorism

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No defence in Chechnya: Oyub Titiyev and the grim future of human rights in Russia’s North Caucasus

No defence in Chechnya: Oyub Titiyev and the grim future of human rights in Russia’s North Caucasus

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Searches and detentions in Daghestan — ‘the Kremlin’s tactics of strengthening its power’

Searches and detentions in Daghestan — ‘the Kremlin’s tactics of strengthening its power’

2 March 2018 By Aida Mirmaksumova

Deten­tions of officials in Daghestan are con­tin­u­ing. According to a researcher at the Moscow State Institute of Inter­na­tion­al Relations (MGIMO), Vadim Mukhanov, the crackdown is aimed at strength­en­ing Moscow’s power in the region and are not indica­tive of systemic changes.

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