Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Chechnya, has announced that he has formally requested to be relieved of his post.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/6/7510879/

#Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has bestowed a range of honours and titles upon 17 of his relatives and associates, including five children

https://oc-media.org/kadyrov-showers-family-with-state-honours-once-again/

#Russia has suffered significantly higher casualties in #Ukraine than in both the #Chechen wars and the Afghan war combined. How many more casualties will it take for the russian people to recognize the failure of this war?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1831346974542455080.html

#Chechen leader Ramzan #Kadyrov again dismissed rumors about his health Thursday night, telling his social media followers, “doctors say I have the body of a young guy.”

Kadyrov has repeatedly been forced to dismiss rumors that he is suffering from serious health issues and seeking a succession plan, as photos and videos emerged of him looking bloated and slurring his words.

https://www.politico.eu/article/chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-health-donald-trump-doctor-body-young-guy/

In the village of #Glushkovo in the #Kursk Oblast, #Russia, the #Chechen #Kadyrovtsy forces were caught on camera looting a local electronics store.

https://t.me/kursk_tipich/16355

Deployed in #Kursk Oblast, #Russia’s National Guard unit #Akhmat “missed” advancing Ukrainian troops and never engaged in combat, Apti #Alaudinov, Akhmat’s commander, claimed on Aug. 8.

Akhmat is staffed with Chechen fighters under personal command of #Chechen ruler Ramzan #Kadyrov.

Alaudinov stated that Ukrainian forces allegedly "simply passed by" Chechen-held positions without engaging in a fight.

https://english.nv.ua/nation/kadyrov-s-troops-claim-they-missed-ukrainian-forces-in-kursk-oblast-50441440.html

#putin's approach to #terrorism - crackdowns on #CivilSociety and free media plus strengthening the security services - has itself prevented any societal control over the latter, @andreisoldatov writes.

An interesting case in point is the phone call by #russian PM #Chernomyrdin to terrorists in 1995 that saved lives of hostages and helped end the first #Chechen war - but was taken as a profound insult by #putin and his former #kgb gang.
https://agentura.ru/investigations/putinskij-sposob-borby-s-terrorom/

Today in Labor History February 23, 1944: The Soviet Union began the forced deportation of Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia. The Soviets forcibly deported millions of ethnic minorities from the 1930s-1950s. At least 25% of the Chechen and Ingush deportees died at the hands of soldiers or from cold and hunger.

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"During the #Chechen wars, it was impossible to imagine that in the future, Chechens would fight with weapons in their hands on the side of #Russia and for Russia," Russian propagandist Simonyan says.

She believes that the same fate awaits Ukrainians.

I want to say that we know Russia's plans: to seize the territory of #Ukraine, to destroy the active part of the population, to turn the survivors into cannon fodder with the help of #propaganda and fear.

‘A gift to #Moscow ’: dismay as #NYPD takes part in #UAE Swat games with #Chechnya and #Belarus

Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious #Chechen unit accused of war crimes in #Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/moscow-nypd-uae-swat-games-chechnya-chechen-unit-ukraine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#UkraineWar

Kremlin says it has no info on health of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov https://politicaliq.com/2023/09/18/kremlin-says-it-has-no-info-on-health-of-chechen-leader-kadyrov/ #Kadyrov #Chechen #Chechnya #PutinAttackDog #Kremlin #Peskov #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar #politicaliq #news #politics

The pro-Kremlin #Chechen leader Ramzan #Kadyrov is gravely ill, a spokesperson for Ukrainian Defense Intelligence claimed Saturday, citing "various sources in the medical and political circles."

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-16-23/h_3c5d8da1fad18b3a95fc9b02831aafa4

#Akhmat Ramzanovich, Heir Apparent

Harold Chambers reports on how rumours of #Chechen strongman #Ramzan #Kadyrov ’s ailing health are coinciding with an enhanced public role for his eldest son Akhmat

https://ridl.io/akhmat-ramzanovich-heir-apparent/

@eva_chaos @chrisschmitz

#Limerick on a #Chechen Potentate, Reportedly Comatose

There once was a dude named #Kadyrov
Whom the world live in terrible fear of:
He was armed! He was bold!
And his palace was gold!
Now the goats don't know who to steer clear of.

Happy to share my chapter, with translations from #Arabic and #Russian, on Chechen refugee migration in the gorgeous sourcebook Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History, edited by Margaret Litvin, Eileen Kane, and Masha Kirasirova.

“Population Transfer: Negotiating the Resettlement of Chechen Refugees in the Ottoman Empire (1865, 1870),” pp. 60-68. https://academic.oup.com/book/46574/chapter-abstract/408283820

In 1865, #Russia organized the transfer of over 23,000 #Muslims (Chechens, some Ingush, Kabardians, Ossetians) out of the #Caucasus.

One of the documents that I translated (with Khalid Obeid) is a fascinating 1870 petition to the #Ottoman government by Jantemir, a #Chechen #refugee leader in Ra’s al-‘Ayn in northern #Syria. See the original image here: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780197605769/res/ch6/

If you would like a copy of the chapter, please drop me a message.

This set of translated primary sources would make an awesome primary source assignment for an UG #syllabus on the #MiddleEast, the Ottoman Empire, or #migration.