Human rights activists are outraged that Abuzaid Vismuradov and Magomed Daudov, who have participated in the torture of Ruslan Kutaev, the Askahbov family and involved in Case 27, travel freely around Europe.

The essence of Putin’s power exposed in two letters from the russian elite to President Macron.

“André Glucksmann, first and main ally of the Chechens in their fight against the state terrorism!” A person becomes a symbol only by virtue of outstanding actions. And, as if summing up the nobility of his aspirations in life, fate sends him the farewell – also outstanding – equal to him in measure.

15 years from the tragedy in the Chechen village of Novy Aldi: 5-6 Feb.2000

Chechens who emigrated to Europe are not in an enviable situation today, as any terrorist threat around the world invariably prompts the security services to investigate them closely. France’s security services attempted to connect the January 7 terrorist attack in Paris on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was carried out by French citizens of Algerian descent (Meduza.io, January 7), to the Chechens.

A forgotten war, a shelved case… Chechnya gradually loses its urgency. Its fate is of no concern for G-8 and its opponents in Davos, New York and Porto Alegre. One of thousands of brutal stories? And what! Today fighters for peace are concerned over different dramas, which make them move ahead, beset headquarters and shake ministerial offices. Less than 1 million residents. Disappearances, expected and realized. Hundred, three hundred thousand dead? Who knows.

Against the background of the unfolding situation around the Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the killing in Florida of another Chechen connected to the brothers, Ibragim Todashev, the killing of a Chechen in Turkey went unnoticed. Medet Unlu, the “honorary consul” of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was killed in Turkey’s capital, Ankara. Unlu was Akhmed Zakaev’s representative in Turkey and an official representative of those Chechens seeking state independence.

The massive relocation of North Caucasians to Europe is still under way, producing concerns among both the regional authorities in the North Caucasus and Western European countries. While in 2000, at the beginning of the second Russian-Chechen war, only ethnic Chechens were found among the refugees, today a significant percentage of them are from Ingushetia and Dagestan. This is understandable since the situation in these republics is highly volatile, with violence and human rights abuses widespread. Rights organizations in the West remain deeply concerned about kidnappings and disappearances of people in the North Caucasus.

The world doesn’t know much about the Russian Genocide of the Chechen people in 1944.The details of this monstrosity is contained in a book written in 1970 by Robert Conquest and titled “Nation Killers.” Other North Caucasian people exiled were the Ingush, Kharachai and the Balkar.

Then, in 1990, at the school holiday “Farewell to the abc-book” I was playing as Karabas from tale-story “The Pinocchio”. They promised me to give Buratino’s cap and book. The promise has not been keep. So happens that adults sometimes deceive. And I took a dislike to Pinocchio.

Every person has their motherland. Small Motherland, the place which is of high value for the person. My Homeland is the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. I was born here, in Grozny. I was educated here. I became a teacher. During my short life I faced the things which neither I nor other residents of our country could foresee even in a nightmare. I do not know whether there is any family which was not visited by grief during the last 10-15 years. I mean, the period since the beginning of Russian invasion in 1994, as the current so-called “anti-terrorist operation” […]

Woman and war and especially children and war; these word pairings, in my opinion, should not exist at all. I, as a woman, as a person, who experienced this war first hand, from the inside, perfectly realizes and understands it.

Over the years, almost all historical leaders of the Chechen independence movement have been killed. In the movement there are no more figures known to the general public, but attacks continue. For the pro-Russian Chechen leadership, however, it is important that enemies have a name. Today, the enemy’s name is Gakayev!

At the end of 1999 and beginning of 2000, when the Russian army’s second invasion began, I was in Grozny.

Two weeks ago, 16 items allegedly belonging to Prophet Muhammad arrived in Grozny. It is not the first time that alleged relics of the Prophet have arrived in the Chechen capital – it has become a frequent occurrence lately – yet such events never fail to find an audience.

In Chechnya, the warfare has been turned against the Russian occupied country’s women. The most public aspect of this campaign is the progressive imposition of a so-called ‘Islamic’ dress code. Lisa Kazbekova, a journalist based in Chechnya, charts its course, enquires why it is happening, and how Chechnya’s men and women are responding.

As the [Russian occupied] Chechen Republic has been gradually rebuilt following the destruction of two wars, the Islamization of the region has become increasingly evident. While the federal center is not involved in Islamizing Chechnya, it has taken no steps to prevent it.

There are young people in Chechnya who live in prosperity and rapidly pursue their careers. If they sing the praises of Putin and Kadyrov, that is. For all the others, life can be very difficult.

In 1995, during the ‘First Russian-Chechen War’, after an air force attack, I lost two of my daughters, one was seven years old and the other was 14 years old. This tragedy occurred in May 1995, in the village of Kharsenoi, in the Shatoi district, where we were living as refugees.

Thank you very much for an honor and a chance to give you my presentation at the University of a country which is very close to my heart and to which my family had a lot of sympathy for many generations.

BBC’s Russian service has published a special report on the rising cancer cases in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Chechnya’s [pro-Russian] government is openly approving of families that kill female relatives who violate their sense of honor, as this republic embraces a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam after decades of religious suppression under Soviet rule.