Thursday, March 05, 2009

BLOG: Ingush realities & Kadyrov approves honour killings in Chechnya (A Step At A Time)

March 3, 2009
At Prague Watchdog, Valentin Tudan makes a return visit to Ingushetia’s capital city of Nazran, and shares his impressions (The tr. is mine).
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March 2, 2009
In a further sign of the advance of political Islam within Russia’s borders, Chechnya’s Moscow-backed President Kadyrov has defended the shooting of seven young Chechen women, the Moscow Times reports. Commentators have preferred to see Kadyrov in opposition to figures such as Dokka Umarov, who heads the Islamist “Caucasus Emirate”, but the report suggests that Kadyrov is at least as intolerant and misogynist as his supposedly more fanatical rivals.
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