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Drifting Further From Moscow

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2012 · People & Blogs

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Chechnya has undergone nearly 10 years of dramatic transformation but the man who has overseen its revival is highly controversial. BBC's Steve Rosenberg spoke to Kadyrov exclusively.

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Chechnya's rise from the ashes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19632275

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19627632


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Ramzan Kadyrov - Wikipedia Entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzan_Kadyrov

List of Second Chechen War assassinations - Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Second_Chechen_War_assassinations

Ramzan A. Kadyrov (NYT, October 6, 2011)
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/ramzan_a_kadyrov/index.html?inline=nyt-per
"In June 2011, a jury in Vienna convicted three Chechen exiles in the murder of Umar S. Israilov, a former bodyguard of Mr. Kadyrov who had turned against his him."

Chechen President Kadyrov Defends Honor Killings (sptimes, March 3, 2009)
http://bit.ly/gMdV4Z+
"The bull-necked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die.Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had "loose morals" and were rightfully shot by male relatives in honor killings."If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed," Kadyrov told journalists in Grozny."

Viewing cable 06MOSCOW9533, A CAUCASUS WEDDING
http://files.vpro.nl/wikileaks/cable/2006/08/06MOSCOW9533.html
"Both Gadzhi and Ramzan showered the dancing children with hundred dollar bills; the dancers probably picked upwards of USD 5000 off the cobblestones. Gadzhi told us later that Ramzan had brought the happy couple “a five kilo lump of gold” as his wedding present. After the dancing and a quick tour of the premises, Ramzan and his army drove off back to Chechnya."

Widespread Torture in the Chechen Republic
Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper for the 37th Session UN Committee against Torture
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/eca/chechnya1106/
"In 2006 Human Rights Watch conducted two investigative missions to Chechnya, focusing specifically on the issues of torture and unlawful detention. Based on interviews with victims of abuses, their relatives and, in some cases, their lawyers, we gathered information—and in some cases documented in detail—on the torture of 115 persons between July 2004 and September 2006. The present briefing paper summarizes this research. While statistics on the scale of illegal detention and torture in Chechnya are unavailable, our research, taken together with that of the Memorial Human Rights Center and Nizhnii Novgorod Committee against Torture—two Russian human rights nongovernmental organizations—strongly suggests that torture and ill-treatment in detention in Chechnya are systematic.1"

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