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2008 August War

Opinion | Georgia should shake up its conflict policy, and recognise the Abkhazians and Ossetians as sides

•8 min read

More than 25 years have passed since the beginning of Georgia’s armed conflicts — more than enough time for Georgian society and the political elite to assess what happened and why. It’s important that we evaluate where our progress stands in solving these conflicts, and whether we, as a country, need to reevaluate our aims and revise our policy — whether the achieved result are acceptable or not and if not, what we can change. Even after 25 years, it’s clear that none of the parties in

The Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact. Photo: Seymur Kazimov/OC Media.

2016 April War

In pictures: Azerbaijan’s advance into Nagorny Karabakh, two years on

by Seymur Kazimov

•3 min read

On the night of 2 April 2016, tensions on the Nagorny Karabakh line of contact erupted. Following four days of intense fighting, several strategic heights surrounding the Armenian-controlled village of Talish, including multiple Armenian positions, came under Azerbaijan’s control. According to Azerbaijan, the heights were being used to shell the nearby Azerbaijani village of Tap Garagoyunlu, and frequent ceasefire violations posed a threat to the city of Naftalan and several other vil

Chechnya

Women and children brought from Syria to Grozny

by OC Media

•2 min read

A chartered flight from Syria has landed in Chechnya’s capital Grozny, carrying 21 Daghestani and Chechen women and children. The flight, which landed on 21 October, was the first of it’s kind from Syria. Previous families returned from the conflict had flown from Iraq. Among the 21 people returned, 11 are natives of Chechnya and 10 from Daghestan; 14 of them are children. The group was met by relatives and officials from both republics. Daghestani Zamidat Abakarova returned to Russia

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[Voice from Chechnya] Twenty years with a kidnapper

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

‘My family was destroyed together with what used to be Chechnya. My husband and I argued endlessly’. Love, abduction, war, and divorce — a Chechen woman told her story to Daptar. ‘My father was a shepherd in the Rostov Oblast. We were born there, all eight siblings. I had a boyfriend in high school. I thought only about him and he — about me. I promised to marry him, but first I wanted to graduate from the faculty of law. He agreed. We promised each other that we would marry only each ot

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

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A third Chechen war is inevitable. The only question is when [Opinion]

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

After enduring two bloody wars and under the extreme authoritarian rule of Ramzan Kadyrov, many in the Kremlin and beyond believe that Chechnya has been pacified. However, after 300 years of resistance, few in Chechnya doubt that the struggle against Russia will continue. The eighth of March marked the 12th anniversary of the death of Aslan Maskhadov. Maskhadov was the president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria — the Chechen secessionist government which emerged following the breakup