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Review | Imago — Exploring Chechen identity in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley
This impressive feature-length documentary debut shows a diverse Pankisi Valley rarely explored in Western media.
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Russian court orders payment of reparations for relatives of Chechen kidnapped in 1999
An appeals court in Sochi has upheld a local court’s decision to compensate the Ortsuyev family for inaction in the case of their relative’s abduction during the Second Chechen War, though the federal finance ministry and the Russian Investigative Committee tried to challenge the decision. The court issued its ruling back on 27 November, but it appeared on the court’s website only on 10 December. According to the case file, 38-year-old Adam Ortsuyev disappeared in Grozny in December 1999. A
1999 Invasion of Daghestan
Russian authorities arrest Daghestani man over 1990s invasion of Daghestan
The Russian security services, the FSB, have detained a Daghestani man for his alleged involvement in the 1999 invasion by Chechen militants of Daghestan. On Tuesday, the FSB detained Ibragim Magomedev in Novosasitli, a village in Daghestan’s Khasavyurt District, on charges of participating in a gang, armed rebellion, and the attempted murder of a law enforcement officer as part of Shamil Basayev’s and Ibn al-Khattab’s invasion of Daghestan in 1999. ‘In the course of work together with th
Anzor Maskhadov
Opinion | The world has woken up to the Russian terror that the Chechens know only too well
Russia’s brutal wars against Chechnya have provided the blueprint for its invasion of Ukraine argues Anzor Maskhadov, a veteran of the First Russia-Chechnya War and son of Aslan Maskhadov the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. I am sure that many could not imagine that Russia would invade its neighbour and try to topple its government. Some have even gone so far as to blame the victim of Russia’s attack for the invasion. These responses belie a lack of interest in history,
Chechnya
Two Chechens convicted for deaths of 84 Russian servicemen during the Second Chechen War
A military court in Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday sentenced two residents of Grozny, Ibragim Donashev and Nazhmudin Dudiyev, to 19 and 18 years in prison, respectively, for ‘killing 84 and wounding four Russian military personnel’ during the Second Chechen War. Dudiyev and Donashev, who were detained in Grozny in November 2018, were charged with armed rebellion, banditry, and assault on the lives of law enforcement officials. The court verdict states that in 1999, Dudiyev and Donashev joined one
