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Inga Sindeeva. Photo: Tata Shoshiashvili/OC Media.

Voice | ‘They love each other very much’

•4 min read

Fifty-six-year old Inga Sindeeva has been a foster mother for eight years and is raising three foster children. She told OC Media about the joys and the challenges of being a foster parent in Georgia. ‘I’m the birth mom of two adult children and a foster mom for three kids. Over the past eight years, two boys and one girl, abandoned by their parents, have joined our family.’ ‘They are in my family under a contract with the state. They will officially live with me until their eighteenth birth

Children

In pictures | The gravel is grayer on the other side: no sports fields in Khevsureti

by Ian McNaught Davis

•10 min read

In the mountain village of Barisakho, in Georgia’s northern, historical Khevsureti region, children at the local school have nowhere to practice sports. Seconds after a teacher opens the window of the staff room of Barisakho Public School to clang the school bell for a break, the 54 children that comprise the entire rush outside to play football, dodgeball, basketball and badminton. While these sports are played with great enthusiasm at this central school in Khevsureti, none of them can

Children

Arrests follow fatal school stabbing in Tbilisi

by OC Media

•3 min read

Two 16-year-old boys have been stabbed to death in a school brawl in Tbilisi. The Prosecutor’s Office has charged two teenagers with ‘premeditated murder of an underage person’, and three others for failing to report the crime. Davit Saralidze and Levan Dadunashvili died from multiple stab wounds sustained during the fight, which broke out following an argument earlier that day. Both suspects fled the scene. The Prosecutor’s Office charged two teenage boys with ‘premeditated murder of an

Chechnya

Syria returnee women denied access to children in Daghestan

by OC Media

•2 min read

Two women who returned with their children from Syria on 21 October are still in detention in Daghestan. The women have been prevented from meeting with relatives or to feeding their infants. Twenty-five-year-old Muslimat Kurbanova and 34-year-old Zagidat Abakarova returned from Syria on a chartered flight to Grozny together with Ziyad Sabsabi, a member of Russia’s Federation Council and Chechnya’s representative to the Middle East and North Africa. In total, 21 people were returned, includ

Chechnya

Wives and children of Islamic State militants return home

by Aida Mirmaksumova

•6 min read

Four women and eight children arrived in Grozny on the evening of 1 September from the Iraqi city of Mosul. They were returning from Syria, where they had traveled with their husbands to join the Islamic State. Together with their relatives, OC Media’s special correspondent was waiting for them in the airport. Travelling on the flight from Mosul were three women from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, all with small children aged between eight months and nine years. This was the first fligh

Chechnya

Chechen women ask Kadyrov to return children from IS

by OC Media

•2 min read

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. ‘Hundreds of young Chechen women not wanting to divorce and break their families, or being tricked by their husbands, have been forced to leave our country with their husbands and children and are now in war

Chechnya

Four-year-old boy returned to Chechnya from Iraq

by OC Media

•2 min read

A four-year-old boy whose father took him Iraq two years ago was returned to Chechnya on 2 August. A large number of people from Jordan, Iraq, and Chechnya participated in his return, according to Chechen authorities. Khasan Tagirov took his four-year-old son Bilal Tagirov to Iraq two years ago. During the recent operation to retake Mosul from Islamic State control, the boy’s father was captured by soldiers from the Iraqi Army, and relatives in Chechnya learned of the child’s fate after