"Top Chechen Rebel Officer Says Preparations for Rebellion Against Kadyrov Regime 'Are in Full Swing'
Amid rumors of Ramzan Kadyrov’s fatal illness, a senior pro-Ukrainian Chechen rebel officer says work is in progress to create an insurgent army to liberate Chechnya from Kremlin rule."
🇷🇺 #Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has posted videos aiming to show him in good health after Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Monday that he had been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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Why Songs From Nirvana + Jimi Hendrix Are Being Banned in Russian Republic
Why are these popular songs flying in danger of a ban in Chechnya?
The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned music that goes above or below a certain tempo. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev said that this to ensure music will “conform to the Chechen mentality.” Semafor has more detail on the Chechen government's ongoing campaign against civil liberties, and which songs will make the cut: "Texas Hold 'Em" is fine, but the Russian national anthem is out.
Within an hour of last week’s deadly attack on Moscow's #CrocusCityHall, a blame game started. #TheGlobalJigsaw tracks the narratives and the counter-narratives underpinned by generous doses of disinformation.
#Russian officials, state media and pro-#Kremlin channels pointed the finger of blame at #Ukraine , downplaying or ignoring the Islamic State #ISIS group’s claim of responsibility.
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The false flag operation theory goes back to the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings which some say had been orchestrated by the #FSB to justify the war in #Chechnya
In the meantime, the Islamic State group #ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. The group said #Russia was targeted because of its past and ongoing "war on Muslims" in various countries and that it was a present for #Putin on his reelection.
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An #explosion rocked a concert hall in the Moscow region & several #gunmen opened fire on theatergoers Fri evening, acc/to Russian authorities & videos from the scene, a deadly attack >1 week after #Putin was re-elected.
The attack on Fri in #Moscow, like a Jan assault in #Iran claimed by the grp, could prompt a reassessment of its ability to strike outside its home territory.
In addition to a public warning on Mar 7 about a possible attack, #US ofcls had privately told Russian ofcls about #intelligence pointing to an impending #attack.
Mark Francois talks about Neville Chamberlain "denuding the British forces of funding until it was too late."
This is wrong. Even while Chamberlain was signing the Munich Agreement in 1938, he was agreeing to a huge increase in spending to increase Britain’s armament in preparation for war.
President #Putin’s forces are accused of sending PoWs captured in #Ukraine to #Chechnya, with one man used as a ‘pawn’, losing both legs and hands in captivity.
Petro #Yatsenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s co-ordination headquarters for the treatment of PoWs, said that Chechen paramilitary groups were actively buying up captured Ukrainians from other Russian military factions.
Do you remember how the Russians won the war in #Chechnya? Well, for a start, they lost the first clash, which ended with the Khasavyurt agreement (1996).
It’s just that after that, “the Chechens sort of went mad”. - I write in quotes because that was the impression outside, as if in a screenplay. Kidnappings, banditry, human trafficking, corruption.
Then terrorism began, culminating in the blowing up of blocks of flats all over Russia…. all the way to Ryazan, where the attack was foiled and it later emerged that the ‘exercise’ had been prepared by the FSB. And Basayev completely out of the blue invaded Dagestan.
And that was the casus belli, Russia tore up all the 1996-1997 peace agreements and the ‘second Chechen’ began. Then it only got worse, after Beslan, Chechnya lost any remnants of international sympathy and the Russians were summarily given carte blanche to pacify it.
As we watch more and more fake stories about how “Ukrainians are doing something to Poles”, we should be aware that EQUALLY on Ukrainian channels there are identical stories about how “Poles are doing something to Ukrainians”. Sometimes these are mirror stories, as with the driver from Szczecin.
All these stories are part of a script written in Lubianka, and its next elements will be beatings of one by the other or even authentic terrorism with traces in the style of ‘Jarosz’s business card’.
Poland watched this in the 1930s and in the 1990s, it is a pity that these experiences have faded so quickly.
The role of individual players from Chechnya is interesting. There was a story behind Basayev’s possible collaboration with the GRU back in the days of the war in Abkhazia, when Chechen fighters with weapons crossed the Russian North Caucasus and entered Georgian territory from the republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, almost as much as Girkin did to Ukraine.
The collaboration with the FSB of Arbi Barayev, one of the biggest thugs in the Republic of Ichkeria, was common knowledge. And yet both of them were not only unpunished but - especially Basayev - respected in Ichkeria. Basayev was even appointed a minister for his wartime merits.
And then he started an absolutely suicidal war for Iczkeria in Dagestan…. in partnership with Arbi Barayev. That’s more or less how some Ukrainian unit in the strength of 2,000 men on 20 February 2022 arrived from Ivano-Frankivsk and suddenly started storming Donetsk.
Iczkeria’s weakness was as much due to its geographical and political isolation as to its tribal culture, which resulted in various clans competing virtually non-stop for limited resources and influence.
Moscow’s hand is evident in all the above-mentioned actions, but after all, it would not have been possible if people of the likes of Basayev and Barayev had not been prepared to follow it.
A picture is circulating that allegedly shows a Telegram post of Igor #Girkin’s wife Miroslava Reginskaya is despair after he was “found hanged in prison cell”.
But no such message can be found on her channel, she’s instead doing some usual panegyrics and photos.
Regardless of how much he deserves it for all his crimes in #Chechnya and #Ukraine, it seems unconfirmed and dubious.
Chechevitsa (Operation Lentil) was one of the most inhuman deportations committed by the Soviet Union
Thousands of Chechen and Ingush people were forcibly relocated to remote areas of the country. Many of them died during relocation, some of them were killed by Soviet soldiers
In 21st century, the policy of the Kremlin didn’t change. On occupied territories of Ukraine, Russian soldiers commit mass slaughter and deportations. They torture people and send them to filtration camps #AureFreePress
Today, we had a largish raid group of 11+ to take on an #OriginFormePalkia in - it turned out to be a good raid.
Just for fun, my strongest ditto was backing up my mega salamence who was in #1 position. Turns out that the ditto's shapeshift did not cancel out my salamance's mega form which was a happy surprise 😁
Mendras, who has written several books on #Russia, said #Putin has managed to stay in power since 1999 — when he was appointed the Prime Minister of Russia by then-President #BorisYeltsin — using "more and more political violence," as well as conflict and wars. They include five wars in #Chechnya, #Georgia, #Donbas, #Syria, and #Ukraine
"#Putin thought we would just stand by. After all, we watched him destroy #Chechnya, rumble into #Georgia and then steal #Crimea — and we did nothing each time.
The decadent West, Putin concluded, had no stomach for the fight.
You may not want war, but war is on your doorstep. Ignoring it will not make it melt away. You may not be interested in #Moscow and #Beijing and #Tehran but, believe me, they are very much interested in you"