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Starye Atagi, December 2001: When “Normalization” Meant Fear and Disappearances
An examination of eyewitness testimonies from one of the darkest periods of the Second Russo-Chechen War. A Village Under Occupation At the end of 2001, Russian authorities repeatedly claimed that the situation in Chechnya was improving. Official statements spoke of “stabilization,” “normalization,” and the restoration of constitutional order throughout the republic. For many residents of…
Land, Sovereignty, and the Unfinished Question of Privatization in Chechnya
The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from Soviet Collapse to Postwar Re-Bureaucratization Introduction The question of land privatization in Chechnya cannot be understood as a merely technical issue of post-Soviet economic transition. In the Chechen case, land was never simply an asset to be registered, transferred, leased, or sold. It was a national patrimony, a source…
Olivier Dupuis and Chechnya: the European voice that refused to bow to Moscow
On May 4, Olivier Dupuis, former Radical Member of the European Parliament, passed away. An atypical and often isolated figure in the European political landscape, his death has largely gone unnoticed in public debate. Yet for those who have followed the history of Chechnya, it marks the loss of one of the very few European…
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…
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