Chechnya
Three members of Shamil Basaev’s armed group from Kabarda–Balkaria sentenced to lengthy prison terms
The three individuals were found guilty of taking part in an attack on Russian paratroopers in Chechnya 25 years ago.
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Russia demands removal of Shamil Basayev photo from Abkhazian museum
Abkhazia’s State Museum has closed its modern history wing after the Russian Embassy reportedly demanded the removal of a photo of Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev. On Tuesday, the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia told RBK that they had submitted a complaint to Abkhazia about the photo, and that the museum intended to ‘rectify the current situation as soon as possible’. The complaint comes at a low point of relations between Abkhazia and Russia, and follows Russia’s decision to cut fundi
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Ossetians endorse Chechen ‘Beslan’ surgeon for Nobel Prize
Chechen surgeon Khasan Baiyev has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, by well-known Ossetian blogger Bella Tsarakhova. Tsarakhova says that Baiyev is worthy of the award for his many years of work in medicine, in particular, in treating children affected by the Beslan school siege. During the 2004 terrorist attack, a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan was taken over by a group of mainly Chechen militants, demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. The Russia
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Chechen court gives life imprisonment to man already sentenced to 200 years
On 20 February, Chechnya’s Shatoy District Court sentenced Maksim Ponarin to life imprisonment in a penal colony. The man was accused of taking part in an attack on Russian troops in 2000, during the Second Chechen War. Stavropol-native Ponarin, who converted to Islam and in 2000 and fought alongside Chechen militants Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab, was found guilty of an ‘attempt on the life of military serviceman’. According to the press-service of the FSB in Stavropol Kray, he was sen
