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Review | The Cage is Looking for a Bird — a Chechen tale of women’s agency
Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.

Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.

The deportation follows the high-profile murder of a Chechen woman in Yerevan.

Bashir Alibiev was found dead in his cell in a detention centre.

The figure is higher than in the eight years of the reunification commission's existence.

Aliya Ozdamirova was buried two days after her forced return to Chechnya in November 2025.

Some Interviews on Personal Matters is a pioneering work of feminist filmmaking and an intricate, intimate portrait of womanhood.

Detained journalists Aysel Umudova and Ulviyya Guliyeva (Ali) had both written letters from prison about the sexual harassment they have faced.