Month: April 2024

Alexei Navalny’s death and the need to counter Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime and its war on democracy

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Parliamentary Assembly / Council of Europe

Alexei Navalny’s death and the need to counter Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime and its war on democracy

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Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
Assembly debate on 17 April 2024 (11th sitting) (see Doc. 15966, report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur: Mr Emanuelis Zingeris). Text adopted by the Assembly on 17 April 2024 (11th sitting).
1. The Parliamentary Assembly pays tribute to the courage and sacrifice of Alexei Navalny, a leading Russian opposition politician, civil society activist, anti-corruption campaigner and political prisoner persecuted, and ultimately killed, by the Russian State for his opposition to Vladimir Putin’s regime. The Assembly expresses its heartfelt condolences to the family, associates and supporters of Mr Navalny.

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Ancient Circassian Cultures and Nations in the First Millennium BC: Maeots, Sinds, Kerkets, Toretians, Heniokhs, etc.

Ancient Circassian Cultures and Nations in the First Millennium BC: Maeots, Sinds, Kerkets, Toretians, Heniokhs, etc.

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Ancient Circassian Cultures and Nations in the First Millennium BC:

Maeots, Sinds, Kerkets, Toretians, Heniokhs, etc.

 

[This is an expanded reworking of a section

from Amjad Jaimoukha’s The Circassians: A Handbook,

London and New York: Routledge, 2001, pp 42-5] Read more →

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Militant Underground Becoming More Active Across North Caucasus

Militant Underground Becoming More Active Across North Caucasus

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Militant Underground Becoming More Active Across North Caucasus

By: Paul Goble

April 2, 2024

(Source: RIA Novosti)

Executive Summary:

  • Since February 2022, underground militants in the North Caucasus have avoided going on the offensive, but recent events in the region suggest these groups have changed their minds.
  • Militants in the North Caucasus are becoming more active—a development that Moscow blames on Ukraine but one that appears driven more by local conditions and assumptions that the Kremlin is distracted.
  • Moscow is cracking down to prevent violence from spreading, allow the Russian security services to take credit for such actions, and maintain Putin’s increasingly tarnished image as the man who defeated North Caucasus militants.

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