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...A deal would have involved the release of Vadim Krasikov, a Russian national who was sentenced to life in prison by a German court three years ago for the murder of a former Chechen rebel in Berlin in 2019...
...rebel in Berlin in 2019....
...Putin hinted this month that he wanted to exchange Gershkovich for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian assassin serving a life sentence for the murder of former Chechen rebel Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in 2019...
...In 1999 he promised to destroy Chechen rebels by “rubbing them out in the outhouse” if he found them in the toilet....
...Russia’s president compared Gershkovich’s imprisonment in Moscow to “a person serving a sentence in an allied country of the US”, a likely reference to Vadim Krasikov, who killed a former Chechen rebel Zelimkhan...
...Putin set the new tone in 1999, shortly before he assumed the presidency, when he vowed to destroy Chechen rebels: “If we catch them on the toilet, we will wipe them out in the outhouse.”...
...R&AW has extensive operational experience in some of the world’s longest-running insurgencies, including fighting against Pakistan-supported rebels in India’s contested northern territory of Jammu and Kashmir...
...Policy Analysis, Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov amplify this thought: Prigozhin’s raid on Rostov-on-Don was so outrageous and brazen that it reminded the Russians of the 1990s and early 2000s, when Chechen...
...During the second Chechen war, the Russian military flattened the capital of Grozny. The UN in 2003 called the city the “most destroyed . . . on earth”. In Syria, Aleppo shared a similar fate....
...Like Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, Prigozhin has positioned himself as a searing critic of military, bureaucratic and business elites who are supposedly failing Putin with their half-hearted, incompetent...
...Russia expelled two German diplomats on Monday in a tit-for-tat measure after a judge in Berlin accused the Kremlin of “state terrorism” for ordering the murder of a Chechen rebel in 2019....
...Germany is to expel two Russian diplomats after a judge accused Russia of “state terrorism” for ordering the killing of a former Chechen rebel in a Berlin park in 2019....
...In December, the governments each expelled two diplomats after a judge in Berlin accused the Kremlin of “state terrorism” for ordering the murder of a Chechen rebel in a Berlin park in 2019....
...The two countries also clashed over the killing of an exiled Chechen rebel leader in a Berlin park in 2019, which Germany said was carried out on the orders of the Kremlin....
...The most shocking incident was the 2019 killing of a former Chechen rebel leader in Berlin’s Tiergarten park....
...A Russian man has gone on trial in Germany accused of killing an exiled Chechen rebel leader in a Berlin park last year — allegedly on the orders of the Kremlin — in a case that has plunged relations between...
...rebel leader in a Berlin park in 2019 on the orders of the Kremlin....
...In February, he said he had given Austrian and Ukrainian intelligence telephone recordings of conversations with middlemen who ordered hits on then Ukrainian MP Ihor Mosiychuk and two Chechen rebel fighters...
...Four years later, an exiled Chechen rebel leader was murdered in Berlin on what prosecutors say were the Russian government’s orders....
...Raised by his mother in a city 300km from Moscow, his Chechen father having left the family when Surkov was still young, he took an unorthodox route to Putin’s side....
...The latest phase of Mr Erdogan’s antagonism towards Mr Macron was sparked by the latter’s uncompromising response to the beheading of a French history teacher by a young Chechen Islamist....
...rebel in a Berlin park last year and a huge hack on the Bundestag computer system in 2015....
...In recent months she has also sharply criticised Russia’s hack of the Bundestag’s computer system in 2015 and its failure to help German police investigating the assassination of a former Chechen rebel in...
...German-Russian relations have been plunged into crisis after German federal prosecutors said there were “sufficient indications” that Moscow was behind the murder of a Chechen rebel in a Berlin park in August...
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