MMA
Russian UFC champions Yan and Chimaev clash over nationality question
Petr Yan said he wouldn’t recognise Chechen fighter Khamzat Chimaev as a ‘Russian UFC champion’ because he fights under the UAE flag.
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Chechnya
Adam Kadyrov inaugurates sports complex in Chechnya named after himself
The ceremony took place in the village of Gvardeiskoe, attended by UFC champion Khamzat Chimaev.
Chechnya
Kadyrov gifts Mercedes Maybach to UFC champion Khamzat Chimaev
Сhechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov personally welcomed the first Chechen UFC champion at Grozny airport.
Chechnya
Khamzat Chimaev dedicates UFC victory to Kadyrov’s 17-year-old son Adam
Khamzat Chimaev has become the first UFC middleweight champion from Chechnya.
Daghestan
UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov reportedly removed from flight in the US over ‘poor English’
Nurmagomedov was asked to leave a flight after a flight attendant deemed his level of English to be too low for him to take an emergency exit seat.
Chechnya
Niqab and MMA under fire in North Caucasus following Daghestan terror attack
The niqab and mixed martial arts have come under fire from within the North Caucasus and Russia as a whole following last month’s deadly terror attack in Daghestan. On Wednesday, the Coordination Centre for Muslims of the North Caucasus decreed that niqabs cause harm to Muslims and threaten discord in interreligious and interethnic relations. The decree came days after Daghestan’s Muftiate issued and then retracted a decree banning the niqab throughout Russia. The Coordination Centre un
Daghestan
Voice | ‘I’m not a girl, I’m an athlete’
When Patima Ayshalova came to the boxing gym, she was told, ‘I do not train girls’. One year later, she was one of Daghestan’s top boxers and had earned the title Master of Sport. ‘While my dad was alive, at night, he and my uncle used to watch fights on the telly. It was still black-and-white back then, they would connect the antenna to it and watch, meanwhile I thought: how they can watch this and when it is going to end? Later, I didn’t even understand how I, myself, started watching fil
