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My fate is the fate of my people – Interview with Magomed Mamatiev
(Golos Chechenskoy Respubliki newspaper, No. 3 (20995), January 24–31, 1997) Today we present to our readers a conversation with the hero of many articles published in our newspaper in the 1960s and 1970s, civil engineer Magomed Mamatiev, a candidate for deputy to the Parliament of the Chechen Republic in Electoral District No. 3 “Olympic” of…
Justice Denied – A Report from the North Caucaus
The report “Justice Denied in the North Caucasus” represents one of the most comprehensive and well-documented analyses of the human rights situation in the North Caucasus region over the past decades. Based on the work of the Natalia Estemirova Documentation Center (NEDC), the document collects and examines dozens of emblematic cases of killings, abductions, enforced…
Trade Unions in Chechnya, from Gorbachev to Kadyrov
Trade Unionism in Chechnya Between the Soviet System, State Collapse, and War (1989–2001) From socialist welfare management to institutional breakdown: the trajectory of a social actor in conditions of systemic collapse. Introduction Trade unionism in Chechnya during the 1990s represents one of the most anomalous cases in the post-Soviet space. Unlike other former Soviet republics,…
Il Primo ministro ceceno in esilio Zakayev ha consegnato a Europa Radicale massima onorificenza alla memoria di Antonio Russo
Zakayev: “quanto accade in Ucraina è ennesima tappa del colonialismo russo, iniziato negli anni ’90 da Eltsin. Putin deve essere giudicato all’Aja per i suoi crimini; non per vendetta ma per giustizia”. Si è tenuto al “Polo del ‘900” di Torino il convegno “Dalla Cecenia all’Ucraina”, in cui è intervenuto anche il primo ministro in esilio…
Salman Abuev – From Independence to Collaboration
The story of Salman Abuev – a Chechen soldier and official – embodies the contradictions of Chechnya in the 1990s. A distinguished fighter in the First Chechen War, Abuev was honored as a national hero of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, only to be branded a traitor after joining the pro-Russian side. He became a…
Inal Sharip on Kyiv Post – “Kadyrov and Chechnya: Putin’s Black Swans”
The opinion piece published by the Kyiv Post under the title “Kadyrov and Chechnya – Putin’s Black Swans” offers a critical reading of the growing vulnerability of Vladimir Putin’s regime in light of the “Kadyrov factor” and Russia’s internal political condition. The author, Inal Sherip — a cultural studies scholar and political figure within the…
Alkhazur Abuev – The weak men of the Maskhadov’s Army
Background and education A career officer in the Soviet Navy, Alkhazur Abuev (also transliterated as Olkhazur Abuev) was born in the Chechen-Ingush Socialist Republic in the first half of the 1950s. In 1972, he graduated from the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval Academy in Leningrad, a prestigious Soviet Navy academy, obtaining the rank of Captain…
The North Caucasus as a Frontier of European Security
Russian ambition is vulnerable in what has always been the Empire’s soft underbelly: the North Caucasus. A conference in Kyiv sets a framework for opposition to Moscow’s imperialist legacy. The following article was written by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Inal Sharip, and published in the Kyiv Post at…
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