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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerExplainer: What does new ‘gay propaganda’ law mean for LGBTIQ+ Russians?Russia has passed a controversial law banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality. Here’s what you need to know
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Published in: oDR: InterviewWhat do persecuted Russian Muslim converts tell us about Putin’s Russia?Interview: Olga Kravets discusses her book on Russian converts to Islam, and how their repression bodes ill for...
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Published in: oDRIn Chechnya, a partial triumph for international justiceBy taking their cases to the European Court of Human Rights, hundreds of Chechen men and women have thwarted the...
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Published in: oDR“I’d prefer to die in Poland”: Chechnya’s most famous YouTuber in exile faces deportation to RussiaAfter fleeing Chechnya, blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov came to command a million-strong audience online. But now he...
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Published in: oDRPoland vs. Azamat Baiduyev: how an EU member state deported a Chechen refugee back to face the Kadyrov regimeAzamat Baiduyev is the latest person to be deported from Poland on the basis of “secret materials”.
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Published in: oDRSeventy years on, the Kumyk people in Dagestan are still fighting territorial claimsIn Russia's North Caucasus, wartime deportations influence the complex relations between ethnic groups to this day. RU
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Published in: oDRA new era of crimes against humanity in EurasiaA wave of brutal crackdowns on LGBT communities in the post-Soviet space has exposed civil society’s shortcomings —...
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Published in: oDROne Chechen man’s quest for a real educationOn this day in 1944, thousands of people in Russia’s North Caucasus were deported to Central Asia. They had few...
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Published in: oDRAnioł stróż CzeczenówPrzy białorusko-polskiej granicy utknęły setki zdesperowanych uchodźców z Czeczenii, którzy próbują przedostać się...
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Published in: oDRThe Chechen watcherHundreds of desperate Chechen refugees are still stranded on the Belarusian border, waiting to enter the EU. Many...
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Published in: oDRIn Chechnya, a ruthless strongman orders family reunificationRamzan Kadyrov wants to reunite Chechnya’s divorced couples. His initiative could only put already vulnerable women...
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Published in: oDRThe burning land of Lenin-AulIn a remote corner of Dagestan, a vicious land dispute has erupted between Avars and Chechens. RU
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Published in: oDRChechnya: dead Europeans are only sometimes newsTwenty-seven Europeans were executed en masse in a single night earlier this year. The lack of international...
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Published in: oDRA transgender life in ChechnyaAs reports of purges of gay men surfaced, Chechnya recently made international headlines. A transgender woman, now...
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Published in: oDRThe inequality of women keeps the North Caucasus vulnerableCorruption, violence and underdevelopment still plague Russia’s North Caucasus. By empowering women, the Russian...
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Published in: oDRChechens alienated amidst gay persecutionsNews of mass arrests, detentions and murders of LGBT people in Chechnya has spread around the globe. The outrage...
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Published in: oDR“Brothers, be careful. Don’t meet up in Grozny”After fleeing Chechnya, four gay men spoke to me about bribery, secret meetings and their plans to return home when...
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Published in: oDRThe women of Brest StationThese Chechen women are falling foul of changing attitudes on the EU’s eastern border, but they have made the...
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Published in: oDRThe disappearing journalists of the North CaucasusMy Chechen colleague Zhalavdi Geriyev has been imprisoned. How many more journalists will join him behind bars?
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Published in: oDRBook review: Veiled and unveiled in Chechnya and DagestanThis new book aims to “unveil” society in Chechnya and Dagestan — instead, it’s a perfect guide of how not to write...
