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Is Chechnya sliding back into chaos?

April 28, 2008

A violent confrontation between the motorcades of President Ramzan Kadyrov and Badruddi Yamadayev threatens ignite yet more conflict in Chechnya.

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Top flight football returns to Chechnya

March 14, 2008

Tonight, for the first time in more than a decade, top-flight Russian football will be played in Chechnya. After years of playing in exile, Terek Grozny have finally been granted permission to play at their home city.

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Has Russia lost control of its nuclear weapons?

January 27, 2007

Captain’s Quarters wonders what’s behind the recent spate of nuclear ‘incidents’ that can be traced back to Russia in one way or another:
A couple of scenarios could be in play. The first is that Putin has decided to gain hard cash by putting fissile material on the black market, which is not only insane but [...]

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Putin blasts US over Guantanamo

January 13, 2007

Vladimir Putin used the fifth anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay to try and convince the world that Russia is morally superior to the United States:
“Russia, hopefully, will not have a Guantanamo. The world community is marking five years since this camp was formed, where people are held without trial or investigation. It is [...]

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Iran training Chechens to fight in Russia

November 28, 2005

Oh, this is going to just thrill the boys at the Kremlin – Iran is training Chechens in terror techniques:
Iran is secretly training Chechen rebels in sophisticated terror techniques to enable them to carry out more effective attacks against Russian forces, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
Teams of Chechen fighters are being trained at the Revolutionary [...]

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Chechen elections

November 28, 2005

I’ve held back from commenting on yesterday’s Chechen parliamentary elections, mainly because I’m pretty sure they’ll be… how can I put this?… unrepresentative. For anyone who hasn’t already worked out the lie of the land – pro-Kremlin party United Russia currently leads the way with a (clearly representative) 60% of the vote, from a [...]

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Should Russia waste its money on nuclear weapons

November 25, 2005

Charlie Ganske at Russia Blog has a thoughtful post about whether Russia should focus its energies on maintaining a nuclear arsenal, or on preventing the breakup of the Motherland.
Today’s Washington Times features a story on Russia’s successful test of a maneuverable re-entry warhead. While this may bolster the national pride of Russian scientists and provide [...]

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354 killed in Moscow by terrorism since 2000

October 27, 2005

Sometimes it seems as if terrorism in Russia is a phenomenon of the North Caucasus. But Moscow has been hit almost as hard over the last five years:
Moscow’s police chief Col. Gen. Vladimir Pronin has said that 354 people died in terrorist attacks in Moscow over the past five years, the Interfax news agency [...]

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Felgenhauer’s Nalchik column canned

October 23, 2005

Pavel Felgenhauer’s regular Defense Dossier column wasn’t published in the Moscow Times this week. By the looks of things, his views on the Nalchik raid were considered unacceptable to the editor, who rejected it.
Felgenhauer sees conspiracy, both in Nalchik, and at the Moscow Times, and has sent his version of events to Johnson’s Russia List:
Berry [...]

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Nalchik Raid – Roundup

October 14, 2005

It looks like the dust is beginning to settle after yesterday’s raid on the Southern Russian city of Nalchik, and the city is securely in the hands of the Russian military. In this post I’m just going to restrict myself to a roundup of news and views that have been published over the last [...]

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Major raid on Russian city – 60 reported dead

October 13, 2005

Reports are coming out of a major raid – presumably by Chechen militants – on Nalchik, a Southern Russian city. It looks like the raid, by approximately 150 gunmen according to reports, has been beaten back and up to 60 people – mostly militants, according to government reports – are believed to have been [...]

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Mike Tyson in Chechnya

September 15, 2005

Yes, it’s true, says Mosnews.  Iron Mike is going to pop down to Chechnya where he can sit back, chill out and watch some quality boxing:
The Gudermes tournament, dedicated to the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, will last until Sept. 20. It will gather world, European and Russian champions from all over the country, RIA [...]

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More on Kalmyk-Chechen conflicts

August 23, 2005

On Friday I wrote briefly about a brewing conflict between Chechens and Kalmyks in the Buddhist Russian Republic of Kalmykia, promising to update when I got back from my weekend away. 
Well, judging by the lack of news reports, the situation seems to be more or less under control, with tensions – for the moment [...]

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Chechen / Kalmyk violence

August 19, 2005

According to Mosnews, tensions are rising between Chechens and Kalmyks in the Russian republic of Kalmykia.  A number of large fights (mostly fist-fights, as far as I can tell, rather than fire-fights) have erupted, and at least one person has been killed:
On Friday, the Astrakhan region settlement of Yandyki, the site of massive unrest on [...]

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Transcript of Basayev’s ABC interview

August 12, 2005

Chechenpress has just published a copy of the transcript of ABC’s interview with Shamil Basayev.  It makes hideous reading, particularly Basayev’s delusional comments (whether he believes his own words or not, I’m not sure) about who is to blame for the deaths of those hundreds of children at Beslan.  Of course, says Basayev, it’s the [...]

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