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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. 13 hours ago

    I never would have accused the AKP at being great at generating international sympathy for their position but boy they've pushed all their chips in this year

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  3. 13 hours ago

    If the Turkish government could be less comically evil, that'd be greaaaaat

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    Erodgan, talking about northeast Syria with TRT yesterday, said: "The most suitable for this area are Arabs. These areas are not suitable for the lifestyle of Kurds."…
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  4. 21 hours ago

    Ankara really focusing on the real issues these days.

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    Wherever there is a terrorism, we see Armenians involved, says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in capital Baku.
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  5. 23 hours ago

    A new video today shows dismissed former deputy PM of Chechnya and mayor of Grozny (and Ramzan's cousin) Islam Kadyrov casually tasing a woman from whom he is trying to get a confession. Islam reportedly carried his own stun gun for such situations.

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  6. 23 hours ago

    If you think this piece I wrote earlier this month raises some startling facts, just wait until the next one comes out. Makes what's described here look like a walk in the park.

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  7. 23 hours ago

    Germany is greatly increasing the number of Chechen refugees it expels, even following the Khangoshvili assassination. It deported 187 people to Russia in 2017, 422 last year, and 277 already in the first seven months of 2019. Many essentially sent to die.

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  8. Retweeted
    Oct 25

    Both & have reports out today which reveal is deporting busloads of refugees to war-torn , yet Turkey claims all returning Syrians are volunteering to go back. Via & See &

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  9. Oct 24

    One point I always try to raise in these discussions is how difficult it is emotionally for Chechens to leave their homeland, the land of their ancestors. Even in bad cases, many try very hard to keep some chance of returning. It's often a truly desperate situation when they flee

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  10. Oct 24

    Grateful to for the chance to speak on threats facing Chechens in other areas of the Russian Federation this week. Sadly, there are no shortage of talking points here, but hopefully we can at least improve their chances to live in freedom and safety.

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  11. Oct 24

    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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  12. Oct 24

    Ankara doing its best Moscow impression.

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  13. Oct 24

    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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Oct 21

    Warsaw. Your greyness envelopes me.

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  17. Oct 19

    Well they didn't teleport.

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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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