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Chechen leader proposes prisoner exchange for lifted international sanctions

Chechen leader offers to release prisoners of war in exchange for lifting sanctions on his family. Will the US and Ukraine comply? A high-stakes diplomatic...

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Chechen warlord applauds teenage son’s violence as he grooms dynasty for power

Amid rumours of ill health, Chechnya’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov is said to be lining up his children as successors

The Guardian - UK

Wife of Ukrainian military’s top intelligence official poisoned; Stoltenberg urges Nato to ‘stay the course’ – as it happened

Marianna Budanova undergoing treatment in hospital; Nato’s secretary general says it is ‘our obligation’ to supply Ukraine with weapons

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Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov offers Putin thousands more fighters amid heavy Russian losses in Ukraine

Kadyrov’s offer comes as Russia suffers possibly the highest rate of casualties in Putin’s war so far

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 643

Violent storms lash Russia and occupied territories, as well as Ukraine and Moldova; Russians ‘trying to storm Avdiivka from all directions’

The Guardian - AU

Chechnya's boss and Putin’s foot soldier: How Ramzan Kadyrov became such a feared figure in Russia

The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently authorized police to shoot to kill pro-Palestinian protesters who might take to the streets of Chechnya. The orders came in the wake of an antisemitic riot that broke out on Oct. 29, 2023, in the neighboring Russian republic of…

The Conversation

How Russia is recruiting Wagner fighters to continue war in Ukraine

After the mysterious death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin is urging mercenaries to sign contracts and swear allegiance to Russia

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Russia makes 80 arrests after antisemitic rioting at Dagestan airport

Five people jailed for hooliganism and criminal probe opened into mass rioting after mob attempted to stop Jews disembarking

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 592

As the war enters its 592nd day, these are the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 583

As the war enters its 583rd day, these are the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Kremlin refuses to comment on footage of Chechen leader’s son beating prisoner

Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson declines to speak about video showing Ramzan Kadyrov’s son Adam, 15, attacking prisoner

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 573

As the war enters its 573rd day, these are the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Russia says it has ‘nothing’ to reveal on Ramzan Kadyrov health rumours

Talk of the Chechen leader’s health grows on social media after unconfirmed reports say he is in a coma.

Al Jazeera

Russia deploys feared Chechen unit to police Ukrainian nuclear town

Pro-Russia Chechens accused of atrocities are trusted to work near the Zaporizhzhia power plant, Al Jazeera has learned.

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The Guardian - UK

High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt review – one man and a mountain range

This record of an extraordinary 1,000-mile trek across the mountainous southern Russian republics of the Caucasus uncovers a brutal history that resonates today

Evening Standard

Ukraine ‘consolidating gains’ after recapturing more than 74 square miles from Putin forces, says minister

As Ukrainian military chiefs claim Russian troops are now “trapped” inside the eastern town of Bakhmut

Bangkok Post

Russia launches criminal probe after award-winning reporter attacked

MOSCOW - Russian investigators on Wednesday said they had launched a criminal investigation after award-winning journalist Elena Milashina was badly beaten in Chechnya.

The Independent UK

Russian journalist sustained a brain injury and fractures during a brutal beating in Chechnya

A prominent Russian investigative reporter has received a brain injury and multiple fractures when she and a lawyer accompanying her were brutally beaten by unidentified assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya

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Russian journalist and lawyer beaten in Chechnya: 'The investigation will no doubt be unsuccessful'

On the morning of July 4, Elena Milashina, a journalist with the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and Alexandre Nemov, a lawyer, were beaten on their way to a trial in Grozny, Chechnya. Images document the extreme violence of the attack. According to the Crew Against Torture, a Russian human…

Tribune News Service

Russia eyes Chechens and convicts to fill gaps left by Wagner

Russia is preparing to send more Chechen fighters and convicts to Ukraine to fill holes left by Wagner mercenaries that were pulled from the battlefield, European intelligence officials believe.

The Guardian - UK

Attackers break Russian journalist’s fingers and stab human rights lawyer in Chechnya

Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov were on their way to the sentencing of a human rights activist in Grozny when they were assaulted

The Independent UK

Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia's Chechnya province

Unidentified masked assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya have attacked and beaten a journalist and a lawyer

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's warlord friend hits out at deathbed rumours in bizarre ranting video

Ramzan Kadyrov has responded to rumours he is close to death as a result of kidney or liver problems - and says a peculiar new video is proof "he is still alive"

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The Wagner mutiny leaves Putin a naked emperor

The mutiny by caterer Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary army ended on Saturday before it really began. Prigozhin apparently has been persuaded to desist by Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, who agreed to let him move to his country, presumably with part of his fighting force. But his escapade’s consequences…

Al Jazeera

‘All bets are off’: An uncertain future after Wagner mutiny

Speculation abounds on social media, but experts warn against drawing conclusions on the fate of the Wagner Group.

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