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1. Investigative Journalist Is Beaten in Chechnya

Author

Kim, Victoria and Kurmanaev, Anatoly

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Journalists -- Crimes against -- Investigations, Assault and battery -- Investigations, Attorneys -- Crimes against -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Elena Milashina, known for her work on human rights, was assaulted along with Alexander Nemov, a lawyer. A Russian investigative journalist and a lawyer were severely beaten in the southern [...]

Published
2023

2. Deepfake Tools Find a Redeeming Role

Author

Rothkopf, Joshua

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Welcome to Chechnya (Documentary Film), Mobile applications -- Usage, Sexual minorities -- Social aspects -- Portrayals -- Usage, Desktop video software -- Usage, Movie directors -- Works -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Desktop video software, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

A film about persecuted gay and lesbian Chechens uses digital manipulation to guard their identities without losing their humanity. The step raises familiar questions about nonfiction movies. When the documentarian [...]

Published
2020

3. Scots to Chechens: how 'ethnic' is ethnic conflict?

Author

King, Charles

Subjects
Scotland -- Social aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Ethnic relations -- Analysis -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Law, Political science, Social aspects, Analysis, Political aspects
Abstract

Every autumn in local parks throughout the United States, thousands of Scots come together to have an ethnic conflict. Kilted chieftains from all the major clans--the MacGregors and Campbells, the [...]

Published
2007

4. Forbidden Lives

Author

Gessen, Masha

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Homophobia -- Forecasts and trends, Discrimination against gays -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, Literature/writing, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Masha Gessen Forbidden Lives The stories of the gay men fleeing a purge in Chechnya. In late February or early March, Ali was in his apartment in Grozny, the [...]

Published
2017

5. Republic of fear; Anti-gay violence in Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents (Government) -- Powers and duties, Gays -- Social aspects -- Crimes against, Violence -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

The Chechen government is reportedly rounding up and killing gay people 'THE youngest one was 16 years old, he's from our village,' reads a post on VKontakte, a Russian social-networking [...]

Published
2017

6. Disparate Scenes From a Chechen Wedding

Author

Kramer, Andrew E.

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Weddings -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Muslims -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Clothing, Turkeys, Young women, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

SHALAZHI, Russia -- At the wedding of Ibragim Arsanov and Zarema Bashayeva, plum and pear trees were in bloom and the snowy peaks of the Caucasus Mountains formed a picturesque [...]

Published
2019

7. Russian LGBT Network Steps Up Efforts To Get Gay Men Out Of Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Gay men -- Investigations -- Safety and security measures -- Social aspects, Nongovernmental organizations -- Services, Company legal issue, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=527540962 HOST: DAVID GREENE DAVID GREENE: More than a hundred gay men have been rounded up by the police in the Russian republic [...]

Published
2017

8. Forgiven by her native Chechnya, a woman is returned from Islamic State

Author

Ferris-Rotman, Amie

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Syrian Uprising, 2011-, Chechens -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State
Abstract

Byline: Amie Ferris-Rotman GROZNY, Russia - She's a mother of seven who married an Islamic State fighter and was captured in Syria, but Madina was lucky. She is a Chechen, [...]

Published
2018

9. Russian roulette: alarming reports indicate that Chechnya is detaining hundreds of gay men and some aren't making it out alive

Author

Ring, Trudy, Reynolds, Daniel, and Villarreal, Yezmin

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Gay men -- Crimes against, Honor killings -- Social aspects, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

This spring, authorities in the Russian-controlled republic of Chechnya began rounding up and arresting gay and bi men, with more than 100 detained and at least three killed as of [...]

Published
2017

10. Yeltsin unveils 'new' peace plan for Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Reconciliation -- Political aspects, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, announced a new peace plan for the settlement of conflicts in Chechnya on March 31, 1996. The plan is intended to be introduced in a phased manner, in a definite order. Parliamentary elections will be organized in the republic after stopping military operations. The status of Chechnya within the Russian Federation will be decided in the third and final phase of the plan. The President expressed hopes that the plan will bring peace in the region.

Published
1996

11. Man tortured in Chechnya for being gay dares to go public with his story

Author

Roth, Andrew

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Coercive interrogation -- Investigations, Torture -- Investigations, Gay men -- Crimes against -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Andrew Roth MOSCOW - For the first time since gruesome accounts of the systematic detention and torture of gay men began leaking out of Russia's republic of Chechnya, a [...]

Published
2017

12. Women being pressured back into marriages in Chechnya

Author

Arutunyan, Anna

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents (Government) -- Social policy, Divorced people -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Anna Arutunyan, Special for USA TODAY Women in this ultra-conservative region have long suffered repressive conditions because of strict Muslim doctrine practiced here. Now they face a new threat: [...]

Published
2017

13. Ramzan Kadyrov says there are no gay men in Chechnya - and if there are any, they should move to Canada

Author

Taylor, Adam

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents (Government) -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Social policy, Gay men -- Social aspects -- Crimes against, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Adam Taylor In an interview, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov denies reports that gay men are being detained and tortured in the Russian republic - not because such abuses would [...]

Published
2017

14. Russia denies gay men persecuted in Chechnya as groups predicted

Author

Arutunyan, Anna

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Discrimination against gays -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Market trend/market analysis, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Anna Arutunyan, Special for USA TODAY For weeks, LGBT rights groups have sounded alarms that gay men are being persecuted in the Russian republic of Chechnya, but they predicted [...]

Published
2017

15. Gay and terrified in Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Gay men -- Crimes against, Discrimination against gays -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Editorial Board This appeared in Monday's Washington Post: --- Ramzan Kadyrov is unlike any other provincial leader in Russia. He rules the republic of Chechnya with brute force and [...]

Published
2017

16. Gay Men in Chechnya Are Killed, Paper Says

Author

Kramer, Andrew E.

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Gay men -- Crimes against -- Investigations -- Laws, regulations and rules, Company legal issue, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

MOSCOW -- First, two television reporters vanished. Then a waiter went missing. Over the past week, men ranging in age from 16 to 50 have disappeared from the streets of [...]

Published
2017

17. Chechnya

Author

Sukhov, Ivan

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Economic aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Regional focus/area studies
Published
2010

18. Chechnya

Author

Sukhov, Ivan

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Military aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Antiterrorism measures, Military policy, Regional focus/area studies
Published
2009

19. Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Political aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents -- Political activity, Regional focus/area studies
Published
2008

20. Foreign fighters and the case of Chechnya: a critical assessment

Author

Moore, Cerwyn and Tumelty, Paul

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Social networks -- Management, Company business management, International relations, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article explains the role of foreign fighters in the recent episodes of Russo Chechen violence in North Caucasus. It also discusses the role of Arab foreign fighters in Chechnya, demonstrating complex local and global social networks enable and to motivate employees.

Published
2008

21. Inozemtsev compares Chechnya to Algeria

Author

Inozemtsev, Vladislav

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Political aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Russia -- Domestic policy, Terrorism -- Social aspects, Terrorism -- Political aspects, Antiterrorism measures -- Analysis, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The cynicism of Russian security establishment to tackle the escalating terrorism is examined. The Chechen terrorist activities are compared to the Algerian crisis in France.

Published
2004

22. Terrorist bomb kills nine at Moscow subway station

Author

Paukov, Viktor, Filatov, Konstantin, Zheglov, Aleksandr, and Sokovnin, Aleksei

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Political aspects, Moscow, Russia (City) -- Political aspects, Moscow, Russia (City) -- Social aspects, Terrorism, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Chechen terrorist activity at the Rizhskaya subway station in Moscow is examined.

Published
2004

23. Russia and Chechnya: a chain of errors and crimes

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Military aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Bombings -- Casualties, Bombings -- Social aspects, Bombings -- Russia, History
Abstract

As early as 12 December, in response to shots fired from Assinov Station, that population center was subjected to an indiscriminate artillery and missile attack. Federal soldiers fired flamethrowers into basements of 40 Abakanskaia Street without checking whether if civilians were present there.

Published
2002

24. Lost Cat: Contact Chechen Strongman on Instagram

Author

Macfarquhar, Neil

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents (Government) -- Social aspects -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Domestic cats -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

MOSCOW -- When people disappear in the Russian republic of Chechnya -- rights activists, journalists and government critics -- there is usually no public discussion. Certainly, no word about it [...]

Published
2016

25. A human rights worker in Chechnya is in peril

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Executives -- Cases, Repression -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Ethical aspects, Human rights -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Drug traffic -- Cases, Company legal issue, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Editorial Board CHECHNYA IS a graveyard of human rights and basic liberties. Twice in the 1990s, Russia launched grisly military campaigns to put down separatist rebellions. Today, Ramzan Kadyrov, [...]

Published
2018

26. How a transgender Chechen escaped Russia and found asylum in the United States

Author

Taylor, Adam

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Asylum, Right of -- Social aspects, Human smuggling -- Social aspects, Transgender people -- Social aspects, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Adam Taylor CHICAGO -- When Leyla arrived in the United States after being smuggled over the Mexican border, she showed her passport to the Border Patrol officers who found [...]

Published
2017

27. Reports about torture of gays in Chechnya produce no investigation, just threats against journalists

Author

Roth, Andrew

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Torture -- Investigations, Threats (Law) -- Social aspects, Gay men -- Investigations, Journalists -- Practice -- Social aspects -- Safety and security measures, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Andrew Roth MOSCOW -- Chechen state television promised over the weekend to produce a tell-all investigation into reports on the torture of gay men in that Russian republic -- [...]

Published
2017

28. Reports about torture of gays in Chechnya produces no investigation, just threats against journalists

Author

Roth, Andrew

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Torture -- Investigations, Threats (Law) -- Social aspects, Gay men -- Investigations, Journalists -- Practice -- Social aspects -- Safety and security measures, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Andrew Roth MOSCOW -- Chechen state television promised over the weekend to produce a tell-all investigation into reports on the torture of gay men in that Russian republic -- [...]

Published
2017

29. Gay and terrified in Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents (Government) -- Social policy, Gay men -- Safety and security measures -- Laws, regulations and rules, Repression, Government regulation, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Editorial Board RAMZAN KADYROV is unlike any other provincial leader in Russia. He rules the republic of Chechnya with brute force and enjoys the indulgence of President Vladimir Putin [...]

Published
2017

30. Soccer Sharia Style

Author

Matthews, Owen and Nemtsova, Anna

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents -- Aims and objectives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Chechnya's president hopes to make Grozny a top force in European football, with a dash of Muslim flair. Chechnya's 34-year-old President Ramzan Kadyrov already [...]

Published
2011

31. A soldier's tale; Chechnya

Subjects
Chechen War, 1994- -- Portrayals -- Evaluation -- Social aspects, War stories -- Evaluation -- Social aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects
Abstract

WAR stories are necessarily gruesome, but by any standards Arkady Babchenko's first-hand account of Russia's wars in the breakaway province of Chechnya makes harrowing reading. Within the first few pages […]

Published
2007

32. Vandals in Chechnya Ruin Offices of Rights Group

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, International organizations -- Buildings and facilities -- Safety and security measures, Vandalism -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

MOSCOW -- Cheered on by a small crowd, masked men vandalized the offices of a human rights advocacy group in Grozny, the capital of the Russian region of Chechnya, on [...]

Published
2015

33. Chechen Leader Scolds WhatsApp Users for Spreading 'Rumors' About Official's Wedding

Author

Mackey, Robert

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Presidents (Government) -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Teenage marriage -- Social aspects, Online social networks -- Control, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Chechnya's Instagram-addicted leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, sternly advised Chechen men to bar their wives from using another popular messaging service, WhatsApp, in a lecture broadcast this week on state television. [...]

Published
2015

34. Still calling for help; Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Russia -- Strategic aspects -- Domestic policy, Business, Economics, Business, international, Domestic policy, Social aspects, Strategic aspects
Abstract

A decade after Russia's invasion, Chechnya remains battered and war-torn NEWLY painted signs in Grozny suggest dialling the Russian emergency number 01 for help. They are part of Russia's attempt [...]

Published
2005

35. First Person: Children of the War; The intifada has come to Chechnya. The new rebels are child suicide-bombers living only for revenge

Author

Politkovskaya, Anna

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Russia -- Military aspects, Children and war -- Personal narratives -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Military aspects, Social aspects, Personal narratives
Abstract

Byline: Anna Politkovskaya, Politkovskaya is a reporter for the Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta. It is sunny and warm, a time for love and happiness, nightingales and weddings. We stand on [...]

Published
2004

36. Trust and Betrayal in a Tale from Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Chechen War, 1994- -- Portrayals, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Novel), Novelists -- Interviews, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.theworld.org/?p=182705 Modern Chechnya is the setting for Anthony Marra's debut novel 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' but it feels as though the ethical [...]

Published
2013

37. Suspects' Chechen Roots Draw Eyes To Russia

Subjects
Boston Marathon Bombing, 2013 -- Investigations -- Social aspects, Terrorists -- Homes and haunts -- Social aspects -- Investigations, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Company legal issue
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=178084378 SIMON: Much has been made of the fact that the suspects in the Boston bombings are ethnic Chechens with links to the […]

Published
2013

38. Russia: End of a standoff

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Russia. Land Force -- Powers and duties, Hostages -- Powers and duties, Security systems industry -- Social aspects, Terrorism -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Powers and duties, Social aspects, Death of
Abstract

It was a chilling sight: in the early hours of Oct. 25, ambulance after ambulance descending on the Moscow theatre where hundreds of hostages had been held by Chechen rebels. [...]

Published
2002

39. A Chechen machinegun wedding

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Weddings -- Russia -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Business, international, Social aspects
Abstract

PANKISI GORGE DRIVING towards the wedding in the Pankisi Gorge, the roadblocks became more and more frequent. Most were flimsy affairs, built by mischievous- looking children. The last one was [...]

Published
2000

40. The train to nowhere: Refugees fleeing Moscow's brutal campaign in Chechnya face grim conditions

Author

GRAY, MALCOLM

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, War and society -- Russia -- Social aspects, Refugees -- Russia -- Social aspects, War -- Russia -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Social aspects
Abstract

At dusk, the orange lamplight from a train hundreds of cars long fosters the appearance of warmth and normality. It is an illusion. The green train to nowhere is sidelined [...]

Published
1999

41. CHECHENS AT PRAYER

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Prayers -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Prayer -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Philosophy and religion, Social aspects, Political aspects
Abstract

CHECHENS AT PRAYER: Chechen men pray at a congress held in Moscow for Chechens living outside their republic. During the mid-November congress a message from Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov was [...]

Published
1999

42. Chechen doctors battle to treat the republic's ills: more than a decade of conflict has left doctors in Chechnya facing a daily struggle to provide health care in their battered republic. So decrepit are the facilities that running water is often a transient luxury. Tom Parfitt travels to Grozny to witness these doctors' efforts first hand

Author

Parfitt, Tom

Subjects
Physicians -- Management, Patients -- Care and treatment, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Political aspects, Company business management
Published
2005

43. Federal Security Service (FSB) takes charge in Chechnya

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Social economics -- Russia, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

An investment of 14.4 billion rubles for social improvement is expected to ease hardship in Chechnya after the Federal Security Service was put in charge of the region in January 2001.

Published
2001

44. Putin and the polygamists: The Kremlin is tying itself in ideological knots as it tries to make new friends in the Muslim world

Author

Matthews, Owen

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Polygamy -- Forecasts and trends, Christianity and other religions -- Islam, Presidents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Political science
Abstract

Homosexuality may not be tolerated in today's Russia, nor political dissent. Polygamy, though, is a different matter. Ever since news broke this summer of a 57-year-old police chief in Chechnya [...]

Published
2015

45. Monitoring Rights In Chechen Region, A Month at a Time

Author

Mydans, Seth

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Torture -- Cases -- Investigations, Attorneys -- Practice -- Safety and security measures -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kidnapping -- Cases -- Investigations, Human rights workers -- Safety and security measures -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

CORRECTION APPENDED GROZNY, Russia -- They never go out alone, and when they are in their small apartment here in the capital of Chechnya, a flat screen on the wall [...]

Published
2011

46. Diary

Author

Wood, Tony

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Military aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Chechnya, Russia -- Economic aspects, Chechen War, 1994- -- Economic aspects, Chechen War, 1994- -- Social aspects, Chechen War, 1994- -- Media coverage, Chechen War, 1994- -- Casualties, War crimes -- Media coverage, Literature/writing, Publishing industry
Published
2007

47. Russia: Conflicting Reports Of 2 Chechnya Kidnappings

Author

Levy, Clifford J.

Subjects
Company legal issue, Kidnapping -- Investigations -- Social aspects, Humanitarian workers -- Crimes against, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects
Abstract

Two members of a nonprofit group in the Chechnya region may have been kidnapped Monday, Russian news agencies reported. The two worked for Save the Generations, an organization that provides […]

Published
2009

48. Russia: Gunmen Attack a Chechen Police Convoy

Author

Schwirtz, Michael

Subjects
Company legal issue, Terrorism -- Casualties -- Investigations -- Social aspects, Insurgency -- Russia -- Investigations, Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects
Abstract

Gunmen attacked a police convoy in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Sunday, killing at least five officers and wounding four others, investigators said Monday. Maryam Nalayeva, a spokeswoman for […]

Published
2009

49. Chechen conflict

Author

Svetitsky, Kirill

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Ongoing reconstruction efforts in war-torn Chechnya will inevitably fail because of the widespread looting and thievery. Despite the huge amount of money poured into the area, very little has been accomplished as building materials are stolen almost as soon as they are installed. Almost everyone, from construction workers to bureaucrats, see it as an opportunity for enrichment.

Published
1995

50. A screening Gulag

Author

Leontyeva, Lyudmila

Subjects
Chechnya, Russia -- Social aspects, Prisoners of war -- Crimes against, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The Russian army detains and tortures Chechens and Ingush in Stavropol camps without the knowledge of the territory prosecutor. The arrest and release of Ibragim Ugurchiyev, an Ingush journalist, by the Russian army has brought to light the illegal detention of prisoners. The Russian government has ordered an inquiry into the issue. The army uses the captured Chechen militants as pawns to get back the Russian soldiers imprisoned by the Chechens.

Published
1995

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