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Zurab Markhiev: Undercover Journalist in Ingushetia
When the Second Russian-Chechen War started in 1999, Zurab Markhiev was living in Grozny. Like many others he fled to neighboring Ingushetia where he ... -
The Cost of Truth: Russian Journalist Elena Maglevannaya’s Story
For her reporting, Elena Maglevannaya was accused of libel, found guilty by a court, sentenced to publish a refutation and pay an approximately $6,5000 ... -
Chechnya: The Assassination of Journalist Natalya Estemirova
Extremely brave is the first characteristic you hear when interviewing people who had known Natalya Estemirova as a colleague, friend, journalist and human rights ... -
Natalya Estemirova: One Year On
On 15 July 2009 Natasha Estemirova was kidnapped outside her flat in Grozny, bundled into a car, driven away and shot. One year later ... -
Murder in Vienna Leads Investigators to Kadirov
In January 2009, an asylum seeker from Chechnya was gunned down in front of a supermarket in Vienna. Austrian investigators now say that their ... -
Muslim: A Wolf Among “Les Bleus”
A wrestler of Cavigal club from Nice, Muslim Saypulayev is a fully integration example. The Chechen origine athlete, Muslim, fights with “Les Bleus” (France ... -
“It is More Horrible to Wait for Your Killers Than to be Killed!”
When I met Aslan Daudov, a 30-year-old Chechen asylum seeker whose name has been changed here on his request, he was afraid that he ... -
The Kremlin’s Chechen Dragon
In the summer of 2004, two years and four months before she was gunned down in the entrance to her Moscow apartment, Russian journalist ... -
Brothers, Bread and the Bosphorus
Most of the 1,500 Chechen refugees who have been living in Turkey for years are yet to be given official refugee status by the ... -
Graffiti: “Poland for the Poles!”
Europe is not safe for everyone. Neo-Nazi attacks took away a Chechen asylum seeker family from Poland to Finland, but now the family has ... -
An Accidental Career Helping in Chechnya
Gistam Sakaeva’s career in humanitarian work began, in 1995, “by accident” in the refugee camps of Dagestan during the First Russian-Chechen War. -
The Sixty Sixth Commemoration of the Chechen Deportation of 1944
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 ... -
Novy Aldy – Before and After
The weather in early February 2000 was nasty, cold and grey. It was as if nature were responding to the horror of what was ... -
Families of Disappeared Accuse Moscow of Dirty War
Aliskhan Pliyev was talking on his cell phone with his girlfriend one autumn afternoon when two dozen masked men in uniforms stormed into his ... -
Chechens Mark Ten Years of Exile
A decade after they fled their homeland, Chechens in Georgia still fear it is unsafe to go back. -
The Caucasian Hostage
With Andrei Babitsky I met in the first war in 1995. He arrived in Ichkeria which was already in full swing in the war. ... -
Pankisi Valley: “The Chechens are the Bravest Men”
Three weeks ago Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s federal security service, accused Georgia of harbouring Al Qaeda extremists in Pankisi. No terrorists have ... -
Remembering Beslan: A Crime Against Humanity
Five years have passed since pro-Chechen terrorists seized School No. 1 in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus, provoking a hostage crisis that ... -
“There is No One to Protect Us”: A Human Rights Campaigner’s Chilling Last Interview
Award-winning human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was determined to expose some of the shocking abuses taking place in Chechnya – but just weeks after ... -
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
Out of fear of angering the government of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, executives at US publishing group Condé Nast have taken extreme measures ... -
Step by Step
Zula is tall, with beautiful eyes, light brown, gazing from under dark blue eyelashes. Little pieces of paper are covering the cork board above ... -
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