
Daghestani MMA fighter arrested in Moscow for ‘desecrating a monument’
According to investigators, Zaur Ismailov used the monument for training purposes.

According to investigators, Zaur Ismailov used the monument for training purposes.

Petr Yan said he wouldn’t recognise Chechen fighter Khamzat Chimaev as a ‘Russian UFC champion’ because he fights under the UAE flag.

The ceremony took place in the village of Gvardeiskoe, attended by UFC champion Khamzat Chimaev.

Сhechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov personally welcomed the first Chechen UFC champion at Grozny airport.

Khamzat Chimaev has become the first UFC middleweight champion from Chechnya.

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.

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