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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

Chechnya

In this handout photo released by Novaya Gazeta Europe via web site Novayagazeta.eu, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina sits after receiving medical treatment in Grozny, Russia, on July 4, 2023. (Novaya Gazeta Europe Novayagazeta.eu via AP)
July 4, 2023, 2:02 pm
Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia’s Chechnya province
Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina suffers brain injury and broken fingers, attorney Alexander Nemov a gash in his leg; Kremlin lawmakers condemn assault
By AP
Destruction in Constitution Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, after shelling by Russian forces, March 2, 2022. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 6:16 pm
Putin’s Syria and Chechnya playbooks foretell a grim direction for Ukraine war
With invasion appearing to slow, some worry Russian president will turn to indiscriminate artillery and missile strikes against civilians, as he has in the past
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Cecile Feuillatre
Illustrative: Two judicial officers stand in front of the Higher Regional court in Dresden, eastern Germany, April 12, 2021. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 1:14 pm
Germany charges Russian citizen over plot to assassinate Chechen dissident 
Commissioned by a Chechen security official in 2020, the hit was meant to silence an exiled Chechen blogger in Sweden who is the brother of the intended victim, prosecutors say
By AFP
Illustrative: People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (AP/Serhii Nuzhnenko)
March 2, 2022, 3:01 am
Ukraine says it killed Chechen forces sent to assassinate Zelensky
Senior official says forces loyal to warlord Kadyrov killed outside Kyiv after plot foiled by intel from FSB agents opposed to war
By ToI Staff
Russian tanks roll on the field during military drills in Leningrad region, Russia, February 14, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
February 27, 2022, 3:19 pm
Ukrainian forces destroy convoy of 56 Chechen tanks, kill general near Kyiv – report
The column was reportedly deployed by Russia to ‘capture and kill’ Ukraine’s leaders, including President Zelensky, using infamous ‘deck of cards’ system
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with members of a working group created to discuss constitutional amendments in Moscow, Russia, February 26, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
February 27, 2020, 4:38 pm
Putin says he rejected use of body doubles during Chechen war
Russian president doesn’t elaborate on reasons he declined offer during trip to war zone in early 2000s
By AP
Illustrative: Police close the streets around a Christmas market after a suspicious object was found in Potsdam, Germany, on Dec. 1, 2017. (Julian Staehle/dpa via AP)
January 14, 2020, 3:17 pm
German police arrest Islamist terror cell said to be targeting Berlin synagogue
Spiegel reports suspects had video of Jewish place of worship, shopping centers; police won’t comment on reported targets but say no concrete danger of attack
By Agencies
A Chechen gay man who fled persecution in his home Russia's Muslim region of Chechnya due to his sexual orientation, sits on his bed in Moscow on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Naira Davlashyan)
January 14, 2019, 12:46 pm
Two said killed, 40 detained in new gay purge in Chechnya
Russian LGBT Network says authorities initiated new crackdown; detainees have alleged torture in previous campaigns
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
People attend a protest against the new land swap deal agreed by the heads of the Russian regions of Ingushetia and Chechnya, in Ingushetia's capital Magas, Russia, Oct. 8, 2018 (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
October 15, 2018, 3:12 pm
Amnesty says researcher abducted, beaten, subjected to mock execution in Russia
Rights group says Oleg Kozlovsky was kidnapped earlier this month by men who claimed to be from Ingushetia’s anti-extremist unit and threatened to kill him unless he cooperated
By ToI Staff and AP
Police officers cordon off the area after a knife attack in central Paris, May 12, 2018. (AP/Thibault Camus)
May 13, 2018, 1:15 pm
Paris knife attacker was on terror watch list
Sources in investigation of deadly spree say slain Chechen assailant was on ‘S list’ of suspected radical extremists
By AFP
A dead body under a blanket after a knife attack that left at least two dead including the assailant in central Paris, early Sunday May 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
May 13, 2018, 10:29 am
Paris attacker born in Chechnya; parents detained
French authorities say suspected terrorist who carried out deadly stabbing spree was born in 1997; Interior minister to hold special security meeting
By AP
Akhmed Chatayev (Screen capture: YouTube)
December 1, 2017, 4:16 pm
One-armed Chechen warlord suspected of Istanbul airport bombing is dead
Georgian special forces say Akhmed Chatayev was one of three men killed in raid last week; thought to have masterminded 2016 attack that killed 46
By AFP
Mosei Yunayev speaking at the International Islamic Mission Forum in Makhachkala, Russia, March 22, 2017. (Courtesy of the International Islamic Mission)
July 23, 2017, 4:12 am
Chechnya’s Jewish community is angry at Israel… but doesn’t seem to exist
Condemning Israel’s Temple Mount policies, Mosei Yunayev claims he was appointed to represent Chechen Jews by the Council of Elders of the Jewish People. No such group, and no such Jews, say experts
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, delivers a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin following their meeting at the Versailles Palace, near Paris, May 29, 2017. (AFP/GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT)
May 29, 2017, 9:45 pm
Macron slams Russia Today, Sputnik for election ‘propaganda’
Putin, visiting France, rejects claim and defends meeting French president’s rival during campaign
By Agencies
A Chechen gay man who fled persecution in his home Russia's Muslim region of Chechnya due to his sexual orientation, sits on his bed in Moscow on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Naira Davlashyan)
April 29, 2017, 5:05 pm
US Holocaust Museum condemns Chechnya’s reported persecution of gay men
Museum director says Nazi genocide ‘teaches us what can happen when state-sponsored, group-targeted violence is allowed to go unchecked’
By JTA and AFP
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