Brussels 22.03.2021 The EU Foreign Ministers Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on eleven individuals and four entities responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses in various countries around the world. Together with the listing of four Russian individuals earlier this month, these 15 designations are part of the first broader package of…
Tag: Chechnya
Russia: pertinent threats to free press
“The European Union calls on the Russian authorities to condemn and investigate threats made by the Chechen government authorities against journalist Elena Milashina (pictured), and to ensure her safety. Russia: EU calls on authorities to condemn & investigate threats by Chechen authorities against journalist Elena Milashina. EU condemns all threats,verbal attacks &violence against #media who…
Germany expels 2 Russian diplomats
German federal prosecutors announced that they are taking over investigation cases of the murder of a Georgian asylum-seeker in Berlin, confirming earlier reports. (Pictured: Zelimkhan Khangoshvili). +++BREAKING+++Germany has expelled two Russian diplomats after the alleged contract killing of a Georgian national in Berlin, the German Foreign Ministry says. More background:https://t.co/tBVOWfPFDK — DW Politics (@dw_politics) December…
Utrecht gunman Chechnya-ISIS record
The leader of Dutch anti-Islam Freedom Party (PvV) Geert Wilders (pictured) confronted Prime Minister Mark Rutte with a request to explain how a Turkish man who is suspected in involvement in terrorism in Chechnya, and with Islamic State (ISIS),was released from prison, and could freely perambulate in Utrecht streets. “…How can anyone with a criminal record full of atrocities…
Ankara “strongly condemns” Utrecht attack
Turkish intelligence service is investigating the motive of the suspect in #Utrecht shooting. President Erdogan has announced, according to reports of Reuters news agency from Ankara. The intelligence services investigate whether there is a terrorist motive and trace or whether the suspect had a different impulse. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said it…
Kadyrov doesn’t seek reelection
The leader of Chechen Republic (Russia) Ramzan Kadyrov is willing to end his term as the governor without renewal, he said on the Moscow 24 TV channel. Kadyrov told that he does not see himself in another high-ranking federal position “I am not a man of this level,” he added. Kadyrov, 42, has ruled the Russian North…
Woman suicide bomber failed attack in Grozny
A female suicide bomber has blown herself up nor far from a police station checkpoint in Grozny, the Chechen capital, Interior Ministry said on Saturday, November 17. https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1063806437778952193 Following the incident, police officers and civilians hadn’t sustained any injuries, the official added. “On the outskirts of Grozny an unknown young woman exploded herself,” acting head of the Chechen Interior…
EU calls Russia to release human rights defenders
The Chechen Republic court confirmed the detention of Oyub Titiev, head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Chechnya. Titiev was arrested on questionable drug possession charges on 9 January and has been detained since then. Yesterday, a court in Chechnya confirmed the detention of Oyub Titiev, head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Chechnya….
Kadyrov blames “Western” orders to Chechen terrorists
Four militants who tried to abdicate visitors of the Orthodox Church of St. Michael Church have been neutralised, Chechnya’s head Ramzan Kadyrov informed reporters on Saturday (19/05/2018). The families of victims will receive aid. Кадыров прокомментировал нападение на церковь в Грозном pic.twitter.com/IArQVYnLZp — RT на русском (@RT_russian) May 20, 2018 “The militants entered St. Michael…
Kadyrov blamed French society for Paris attacker radicalisation
The leader of Republic of Chechnya (Russian Federation), Ramzan Kadyrov puts the blame for radicalisation of Paris terrorist Khamzat Azimov (1997-2018) on French society. 'Born in Chechnya, but France was responsible for his convictions’ – Kadyrov on #Paris attacker https://t.co/Z46QYR3vmC pic.twitter.com/XFpMYYDGn3 — RT (@RT_com) May 13, 2018 “I think it necessary to say that the entire responsibility…
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