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Russian fascism: the six principles of Putin’s nationalist ideology

Ruscism, also known as rashism, russism or simply Russian fascism, is the ideology that forms the backbone of Vladimir Putin’s decades-long dictatorial rule. The term was coined by journalists to describe Russian ultranationalism in Chechnya and Georgia in the late 1990s. However, it began to crystallise into a fully-fledged ideology,…

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Chechnya's boss and Putin’s foot soldier: How Ramzan Kadyrov became such a feared figure in Russia

The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently authorized police to shoot to kill pro-Palestinian protesters who might take to the streets of Chechnya. The orders came in the wake of an antisemitic riot that broke out on Oct. 29, 2023, in the neighboring Russian republic of…

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Kremlin refuses to comment on footage of Chechen leader’s son beating prisoner

Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson declines to speak about video showing Ramzan Kadyrov’s son Adam, 15, attacking prisoner

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Russia deploys feared Chechen unit to police Ukrainian nuclear town

Pro-Russia Chechens accused of atrocities are trusted to work near the Zaporizhzhia power plant, Al Jazeera has learned.

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Russia launches criminal probe after award-winning reporter attacked

MOSCOW - Russian investigators on Wednesday said they had launched a criminal investigation after award-winning journalist Elena Milashina was badly beaten in Chechnya.

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Russian journalist sustained a brain injury and fractures during a brutal beating in Chechnya

A prominent Russian investigative reporter has received a brain injury and multiple fractures when she and a lawyer accompanying her were brutally beaten by unidentified assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya

The Independent UK

Russian reporter returns to Moscow after Chechnya attack

Russian journalist and her lawyer were severely beaten and threatened with weapons in Chechnya.

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Russian journalist and lawyer beaten in Chechnya: 'The investigation will no doubt be unsuccessful'

On the morning of July 4, Elena Milashina, a journalist with the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and Alexandre Nemov, a lawyer, were beaten on their way to a trial in Grozny, Chechnya. Images document the extreme violence of the attack. According to the Crew Against Torture, a Russian human…

France 24

Russian journalist and lawyer beaten by armed thugs in Chechnya

Masked assailants blocked their vehicle with cars before beating them with clubs

Evening Standard

Attackers break Russian journalist’s fingers and stab human rights lawyer in Chechnya

Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov were on their way to the sentencing of a human rights activist in Grozny when they were assaulted

The Guardian - UK

Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia's Chechnya province

Unidentified masked assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya have attacked and beaten a journalist and a lawyer

The Independent UK

Khamzat Chimaev's 'clone' is spitting image of UFC star with same nickname

Khamzat Maaev is an unbeaten fighter from Chechnya who is the spitting image of UFC star Chimaev - and he even has the same nickname in 'Borz'

Daily Mirror

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 477 of the invasion

Ukraine counteroffensive making slow progress, say western officials; Chechnya ruler Kadyrov says right-hand man alive after all

The Guardian - AU

The mysterious death of Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov’s favorite fighter

Abdul-Kerim Edilov was an MMA veteran as well as one of the most influential men in his homeland. And then he disappeared from public life

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine is proof the EU needs to get better at stopping mass atrocities

The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows that identifying mass atrocity risks is not a niche concern. Many who thought it would be irrational for Russia to launch an attack minimised long-standing Russian rhetoric that denied Ukrainian statehood and national identity. If policymakers had used a “mass atrocity lens”, then they…

Reuters

Chechnya's Kadyrov: one day I plan my own mercenary group

Ramzan Kadyrov, the ally of President Vladimir Putin who leads Chechnya, said on Sunday that he one day planned to set up his own private military company in the style of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group of mercenaries.

France 24

Muslims from Ukraine and abroad fight common enemy in Ukraine: Russia

Since the start of the war, tens of thousands of Muslims have either picked up arms or assisted in the war efforts in other ways. While most of these Muslims are of course Ukrainian, many are from Caucasus, and Chechnya in particular. Together with the Ukrainians, they are not only…

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin war commander survives assassination bid after being sent poison in post

Major-General Apti Alaudinov, 50, a pal of Chechnyan warlord Ramzan Kadyrov and commander of the region's soldiers in Ukraine, received a letter saturated with an unknown deadly toxin

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Russia can take Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, Chechnya's Kadyrov says

Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian region of Chechnya, said in an interview aired on Monday that Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine by the end of the year and it would be wrong to negotiate with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Daily Mirror

Russian officer admits troops guilty of torture including knocking prisoner's teeth out

Russian defector Konstantin Yefremov was deployed to Ukraine last year from Chechnya, in Russia's North Caucasus, and witnessed brutalities against Ukrainians

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re fighting for a free future’: the Chechen battalions siding with Kyiv

Fighters of Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion oppose Putin and his strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as they battle with Ukrainian prejudice

Al Jazeera

Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine, rehearsed in Chechnya

Moscow’s invasion has echoes of the tactics it employed in conflicts in the North Caucasus, experts and survivors say.

USA Today Sports Media Group

U.S. State Department aware of UFC fighter ties to dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, discourages travel to Chechnya

The apparent ties between UFC fighters and sanctioned dictator Ramzan Kadyrov are on the radar of the U.S. State Department.

Daily Mirror

Exiled enemy of brutal Chechen leader assassinated in Europe as he's found shot dead

The Telegram channel 1ADAT and Radio Free Europe reported that 36-year-old Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the exiled enemy of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was shot dead in Sweden

The Guardian - UK

Putin talks to mothers of soldiers fighting in Ukraine in staged meeting

Russian president sits down with handpicked group of women to calm public anger over mobilisation

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