Magomed Torijev

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Magomed is a journalist, human rights activist, and expert on the North Caucasus and former USSR. He has worked for RFE/RL, Prague Watchdog, the UN in Chechnya and Ingushetia, and the OSCE Mission to

Ingushetia

Opinion | The Ingush are leaving Russia

by Magomed Torijev

•5 min read

A Russian collapse following their defeat in Ukraine is inevitable, and when it comes, the Ingush are ready to forge their own future. The words of the Marquis Astolphe de Custine — ‘Russia is a prison of peoples’ — is understandable to the Ingush from the first to the last letter due to our rich prison experience inside a country that has changed names and sizes many times, but has never changed its inhuman essence. Over 250 years, the Ingush have survived one complete and three partial

Chechen and Ingush Deportations

Opinion | Russia’s death train rolls through Chechnya and Ingushetia

by Magomed Torijev

•5 min read

On the anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people, a Russian ‘victory train’ is visiting the two republics — a grotesque parody of the trains that took so many to exile and death. Today is the 78th anniversary of the deportation of the Vainakhs — the Chechen and Ingush people — to Siberia and Central Asia. Seventy-eight years since the entire population of Chechnya and Ingushetia were taken from their homes at gunpoint, in the dead of winter, and packed into cattle cars pu

Chechnya

Opinion | Kadyrov’s growing Apologystan

by Magomed Torijev

•6 min read

Ramzan Kadyrov’s brutal approach to politics combined with his insatiable hunger for power and status has devolved into behaviour towards neighbouring regions that is nothing less than medieval. On 13 November, the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, travelled to the mountainous Galanchozhsky District, a district that saw its borders expand in 2018 as swathes of Ingushetia were handed over to Chechnya. During the televised visit Kadyrov announced that he could take away all the Chech

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