Chechen Press News Today

"What kind of people are you?" Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said in a rant aimed at shaming residents of the Russian republic into volunteering to fight in Ukraine. Nonetheless, Chechnya’s parliament speaker said there are more than 1,000 vacancies in the region's security units.

More than any other event since the Crimean annexation in 2014, the popular protests in Kazakhstan and the subsequent Russian-led intervention to suppress them have deeply troubled the countries of the former Soviet space. Many are now fearful that both the protests and their suppression could be repeated in their own countries, while others worry about what this means for …