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Kadyrov Says Chechens Ready to Perform Special Tasks for Putin that Other Security Agencies Can’t

December 29, 2014

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, December 29 – Speaking to a meeting of 20,000 Chechen volunteers in Grozny yesterday, republic head Ramzan Kadyrov said that he and they are ready to perform tasks for Vladimir Putin “which can be solved only by volunteers” and not by “the regular army, air force, navy or nuclear forces.” “Putin has helped [the […]

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New Film Documents 10 Percent of Russian Troops in World War I Were Tatars

August 26, 2014

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, August 26 – A new documentary film, “Unnoticed Heroes of a Not Well-Known War,” released in Moscow as part of Days of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, calls attention to one aspect of that conflict few know about: ten percent of the Russian subjects mobilized to fight in World War I, some 1.5 […]

Farid Mukhametshin irector of the Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanology. Islam in Russia Nikolay Svanidze plenipotentiary representative of Tatarstan to the Russian Federaiton Ravil Akhmetshin Savage Division Tatar Tatarstan State Council