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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
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. Similarities between Pakistan/OBL raid and Turkey/Baghdadi raid: -militant found in area deep under their control -not informed by US beforehand -played no role in op -longstanding US bases on their territory not used owing to distrust Gonna be a big 'yikes' from me, Erdo.

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  3. Russia's version of "counterterrorism" draws primarily from that old Roman maxim: make it a desert, and call it piece. Let's not forget that Russia also intentionally trafficked hundreds of jihadis to Syria so it wouldn't have to deal with them at home in the North Caucasus.

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  4. Sounds like a cool idea - the Caucasus is well overdue for a treatment like this. If anyone is interested, they should get in touch.

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  5. Oct 25

    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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  6. Oct 25

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

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  7. Oct 25

    Ankara really focusing on the real issues these days.

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  8. Oct 25

    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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  9. Oct 25

    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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  10. Oct 25

    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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  11. Retweeted

    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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Oct 24

    Ankara doing its best Moscow impression.

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. Oct 21

    Warsaw. Your greyness envelopes me.

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  20. Oct 19
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  21. 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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