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Chechnya & Caucasus, Russia, Syria, heavy metal. Нохчийн кӀант хир ву. Special focus on Russia-Syria and Caucasian ethnic minorities. 🇨🇦 neil.hauer@gmail.com

Yerevan, Armenia
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Joined April 2014
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 4

    In recent months, Ramzan Kadyrov has gone further than ever in pushing Chechnya's autonomy & independence. Putin has shown a near-total disregard to his wayward protege - and the longer this goes, the more he will regret it. My latest for :

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Meanwhile, has almost completed its transformation into the Turkish version of RT. Increasingly I'm ashamed to have once appeared on this channel.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Ankara doing its best Moscow impression.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Syria: Damning evidence of war crimes and other violations by Turkish forces and their allies. Turkish forces and their allies have committed 'summary executions' and 'indiscriminate bombardment' of civilian areas in northeast Syria.

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  5. Oct 23

    Spent most of last night arguing with a Polish person at the bar that their language should really use Cyrillic and I think it was a good use of my time.

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  6. Retweeted
    Oct 22

    I happened to see this episode and this is a lie. Would not trust this person for any news about Russian politics.

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  7. Oct 21

    Warsaw. Your greyness envelopes me.

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  8. Oct 19

    Well they didn't teleport.

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  9. Oct 18

    Correction: I confused one of the names on the list - there was no immediate relative of Chechnya's #2 man Adam Delimkhanov arrested/tortured.

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  10. Oct 18

    The circle of power in Chechnya, never wide, has thus been chopped in half in these recent moves. The replacement appointments have mostly been Kadyrov's own young relatives - a testament to how few people he now trusts. What was never a sustainable system has been deeply shaken.

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  11. Oct 18

    This is the first ever purge of top officials to occur in this way in Chechnya. It appears to have resulted from (and to have intensified) a split b/w officials who were rebels-turned-loyalists (Ramzan and co), and those who had never been part of the insurgency.

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  12. Oct 18

    A stunning and highly concerning report from : high-ranking Chechen officials are being brutally purged throughout the Kadyrov regime. Attempts by Moscow to intervene were rebuffed. Even the brother of #2 man Adam Delimkhanov is tortured.

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  13. Oct 18

    YPG fighters reportedly blocked Russian and Syrian troops from entering Tabqa yesterday, as had previously been agreed. News of the US-Turkey agreement on north Syria led to a 7-hour standoff b/w Russian and Kurdish forces before the former turned back.

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  14. Oct 17

    There really are so many genuinely horrible people on this platform.

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  15. Oct 17

    More skillful PR spending from the geniuses in charge in Baku.

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  16. Oct 17

    This has already made the rounds but for all the US folks just starting their days, here's a laugh to get you going.

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    The next episode of ’s popular TV series takes place in . In this episode, Navy SEALs help to fend off attack against Azerbaijan, which they describe as “the only…
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  17. Oct 17

    Been a long time since I read a book review that made me want to shout 'YES' so many times, but hoo boy this one delivers the goods

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  18. Oct 17

    Was just sent this great read on Ian Bremmer, the guy whose best use is as a sort of litmus test for determining which world news commentators aren't actually smart. "He's the man with his finger just off the pulse," and "as vapid as ever."

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  19. Oct 17

    Art of the deal

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  20. Oct 16

    At long last, Armenia gets a low-cost carrier with Ryanair opening its first four routes to the country. A much-needed upgrade here.

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  21. Oct 16

    A very apt quote. Russia's seeming successes in Syria aren't a result of outmaneuvering the West or a sign of some sort of shift in the regional power balance. They've happened because the US has simply walked away and handed it to them.

    “All of Russia’s most significant successes in Syria...simply crashed down onto Putin and Moscow as manna from heaven as a result of the peculiar behavior of the Western countries and of Turkey.” — Middle East specialist at the Russian Academy of Sciences …
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