
Chechnya
Chechen state TV broadcasts apology from local woman accused of 'witchcraft'
Over the past three months, Chechen authorities have publicly announced the capture of a third ‘witch’.
Over the past three months, Chechen authorities have publicly announced the capture of a third ‘witch’.
Some of this money was used to help ‘residents of the liberated territories’.
They came to demand an apology from Alaudinov, but eventually deemed he was a ‘friend of Orthodox Christians’.
A commander of Chechen special forces has drawn attention to a sermon by a Russian Orthodox priest in which he made critical remarks about Muslims.
Ruslan Kutaev now heads the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus.
Criminal proceedings have been launched against blogger Areg Shchepikhin and his abductors.
Areg Shchepikhin was reportedly beaten for hours and forced to record a video apologising for ‘insulting the Chechen people’.