Moscou - Arrestations, perquisitions et agressions se multiplient contre Memorial, la dernière organisation de défense des droits de l'Homme en Tchétchénie. Pour nombre de militants, leur origine ne fait aucun doute: Ramzan Kadyrov, plus que jamais homme fort de la république du Caucase russe.

What comes to your mind when you think of Chechnya, and Grozny in particular? A bombed-out city, bearded men and veiled women? Well, you could not be more wrong. When I visited in August 2019, not only the capital, but an entire country did not show the slightest traces of war. I was baffled, it […]

Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, is a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin and has sent his troops into Ukraine

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Welcome to Grozny! Before the First Chechen War broke out in 1994, Grozny was a fairly typical Russian city of a half a million people – the same size as Oslo in Norway. One notable aspect of…