‘I am under threat’: Decades after Putin’s war, the anguish of Chechens still hunted by Russia – France 24

The conflict in Ukraine recalls the 1999 arrival of tanks in Chechnya sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin to “pacify the Caucasus”. Twenty-three years later, the war is not over. It has moved to the European Union, where some of the 250,000 Chechen refugees there are spying on one another. Since 2009, two dissidents who testified publicly about Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s abuses have been shot dead in Austria, a rich and peaceful country of 9 million people.

Source: France 24