Movsar Eskerkhanov, who became the first native of Chechnya to publicly admit his homosexuality, asked for forgiveness from the leadership of the republic in a Chechen television story and stated that his confession was made under pressure from Western journalists in order to “disgrace him before the Chechen people and ruler.” IN…
Maksim Lapunov, a 30-year-old native of Omsk, wrote a statement to the Investigative Committee of Russia about his persecution for homosexuality in Chechnya and revealed details of torture in a secret prison. He spoke about this at a press conference in Novaya Gazeta on October 16. Lapunov arrived in Grozny ...
The Canadian non-profit organization Rainbow Railroad helped 35 LGBT people from Chechnya leave Russia, 31 of them received political asylum in Canada. “Together with the Canadian government, we are working on a program that has made it possible to bring persecuted members of the LGBT community from Chechnya into the country,” said the executive…
The HBO channel released the Real Sports program dedicated to the development of martial arts in Chechnya, in the framework of which the American journalist David Scott twice visited Grozny, where he interviewed the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. On the eve of the premiere of the program, Scott shared his impressions of his trip to Chechnya and his meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov in an interview ...
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in an interview with the American television channel HBO, called for “taking away” gays from the republic, if they are there, in order to “cleanse the blood.” Answering a question from journalist David Scott about the persecution of gays, Kadyrov said: “This is nonsense. We don't have such people. No…
The famous Russian singer Timati (real name Timur Yunosov) deleted a photo from his Instagram page that was allegedly taken on board the private plane of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, reports currenttime.tv. The photo was published on March 7. Timati signed it with the words: “When on the eve of March 8...
Against the background of active bombing in Aleppo, journalists are increasingly comparing the war in Syria with the fighting in Grozny during the second Chechen war. This has been reported by Al Jazeera, The Economist, Foreign Policy and The New York Times. The Meduza edition figured out that ...
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called a video he posted on Instagram in January in which the chairman of the opposition party Parnas, Mikhail Kasyanov, was depicted in the sights of a sniper rifle as a joke. Kadyrov’s post appeared shortly after President Vladimir Putin’s remark addressed to him, which he...
Some time ago, in one of the social networks, I left a message with the following content: “They say that in Chechnya nowadays it’s quiet, smooth, and God's grace. Kadyrov swears allegiance to Putin almost every day (promising, on occasion, to die for him), and ...
The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov believes that the United States is making "attempts to destroy the world of Islam" and called on the leaders of the Arab and Muslim countries to unite to protect it. He wrote about this on his page on the social network Instagram. “I urge, first ...