Chechnya

Russia’s President and Iran’s Supreme Leader both accuse US of sponsoring terrorism

Iran’s Supreme Leader Imam Ali Khamenei has spoken about America’s role in funding global Salafist terrorism in a speech in Tehran. He highlighted the main points of his speech in the following series of Tweets,

That US arms a terrorist group is what causes instability. Who created #ISIS? The US!
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) June 12, 2017

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov responds to western accusations of ‘gay killings’

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechen Republic, has spoken about recent accusations against him and his people.
The liberal mainstream media have been running unconfirmed reports that the Chechen authorities have been detaining and even killing homosexual males in the Republic.
It doesn’t matter that there is no credible evidence of such events, this is the mainstream media after all.
Kadyrov sees the reports as part of a wider media campaign to degrade and debase Chechnya. In an exclusive interview with RT, Kadyrov said,

Ambassador Nikki Haley says US will not ignore unverified reports Chechnya is persecuting “suspected” gay men

Has Nikki Haley never heard of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?
The propaganda war against Russia continues, and what better way to poison western minds against Putin and Russia than to play the LGBT persecution card.
America’s Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power Nikki Haley said the US will not ignore reports that authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are persecuting suspected gay men.

St Petersburg Metro Blast Kills and Injures Scores

(MEEAt least nine people were killed and 20 injured in explosions in a train carriage at metro stations in St Petersburg on Monday, Russia’s national anti-terrorist committee said.
Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying the blast was caused by a bomb filled with shrapnel. Another source in Russia’s emergency services told Reuters there had been only one bomb blast.

ISIS comes to Russia: battle between ISIS fighters and Russian National Guard in Chechnya

What the Russian authorities have always feared and warned against finally happened today when early this morning a group of six ISIS fighters attacked a base of the Russian National Guard (‘Rosgvardiya’) in Chechnya’s Naursky district.
A report of the clash from the official Russian news agency TASS drawing on a report from Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee reads as follows

Porkins Great Game episode 13 Fetullah Gulen Lives!

On this months episode Christoph and I take an in-depth look at the recent “Four Day War” between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Nagorno Karabhak region.  We discuss the causes for this latest outbreak of violence, and the various regional and global actors involved.  Christoph also breaks down the history of this long-forgotten,  frozen conflict.