by CBBSS | Mar 11, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Carnegie’s Alexy Malashenko analyzes Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov’s options following his announcement that he is ready to step down. Malashenko predicts Kadyrov will not step down as Chechen president and states Putin needs Kadyrov to keep running Chechnya, a...
by CBBSS | Mar 10, 2021 | Regional News
Two western journalists and two Russian human rights activists were brutally attacked were brutally attacked as they were trying to enter Chechnya from neighboring Russian region Ingushetia, RFE/RL reports. A group of about 20 men believed to have come from Chechnya...
by CBBSS | Mar 2, 2021 | International News and Analysis
The Interpreter publishes an English-language version of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta’s investigative story on the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The article traces the steps of a gang of Chechen assassins who apparently received a tender to kill...
by CBBSS | Feb 27, 2021 | Regional News
On the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, Chechen leader and Putin ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, is saying it is time for him to resign, RFE/RL reports. Kadryov said in an interview with pro-Kremlin NTV television that “my time has passed”...
by CBBSS | Feb 24, 2021 | Regional News
Russian opposition leader Ilya Yashin released a report on Tuesday that describes Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as a threat to national security. Police interrupted Yashin’s news conference after a bomb threat was reportedly called in, the Wall Street Journal...
