By taking their cases to the European Court of Human Rights, hundreds of Chechen men and women have thwarted the powerful Russian state’s efforts to sweep its abuses in Chechnya under the rug.
After fleeing Chechnya, blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov came to command a million-strong audience online. But now he could become the latest person to face “secret” deportation from Poland.
On this day in 1944, thousands of people in Russia’s North Caucasus were deported to Central Asia. They had few rights in exile — and had to fight every step of the way. RU
