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Ramzan Kadyrov

Russia's Lavrov: S Ossetia not joining Russia

South Ossetia does not want to become part of Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, after South Ossetia's leader made contradictory statements that could undermine part of Russia's justification for last...

New Moscow Policies Likely to Spread Ethnic Conflicts Beyond Hot Spots

Paul Goble Even as Moscow seeks to find a way to prevent Ingushetia from exploding and as the Koryaks protest his having forced them to combine with Kamchatka, Russian officials have proposed three new policies likely to...

US 'provoked Russia-Georgia war'

Mr Kadyrov was adamant that the republic was now loyal to Moscow Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the United States of emboldening Georgia to start a war in the Caucasus to test Russian resolve. Mr Kadyrov, who...

Putin sexy, but not that sexy: Mag

Boris Nemtsov, a former leader of opposition party Union of the Right Forces pushes the former president to number two slot in the Sexy Rating list of Sex & the City magazine Moscow: He single-handedly saved a TV crew...

Horse racing: Tattenham corner - Olympics that went wrong for Hong Kong

There must have been red faces at the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Olympics when the show jumping stage of the men's Modern Pentathlon became a muddy farce. The combination of rain-softened conditions, a raucous crowd...

Moscow's Moves in Georgia Spark Calls for Recognition of Captive Nations in Russia

Paul Goble Prior to Moscow's extension of diplomatic recognition to Abkhazia and South Ossetia – a step no other country has yet followed – many in both Russia and the West argued that Moscow should not take that step...

An empire on the verge of collapse

By Sergei Gligashvili, special to Prague Watchdog U.S. presidential candidate John McCain recently made a statement which was bound to appear at the present time. He said that after Russia recognized the independence of...

Chechen President to Inaugurate Largest Mosque in Europe

By The Media Line The Russian-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will inaugurate the "largest mosque in Europe" on October 17, the Russian official news agency Novosty reported. Over 10,000 worshipers will be able to...

Harun al-Rashid in Gudermes

Ramzan Kadyrov was struck by how openly the Chechens of today indulge in various sins. Not only do they no longer hide their cigarettes from their elders as they used to – they have absolutely no compunction in drinking...

Chechen Vostok battalion commander officially dismissed-2

GROZNY, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Sulim Yamadayev has been officially dismissed from his post as commander of the Defense Ministry's Vostok battalion in Chechnya, a military source said on Friday. The source said that...