Adam Delimkhanov

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A police officer in the Islamic Centre in Kotelniki, Moscow. Screengrab via social media.

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Heads of Chechnya and Daghestan criticise police for disrupting Friday prayer in Moscow

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the head of Daghestan, Sergei Melikov, have criticised a Russian National Guard raid on an Islamic centre in the Moscow Oblast on 14 July. Footage of the incident shows members of the OMON, a special police force within the Russian National Guard, disrupting the Friday prayer in an Islamic centre in Kotelniki. In the videos, the police are seen demanding identification papers from worshippers, while other videos from the mosque show troops stormin

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Kadyrov to visit Syria

by OC Media

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Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov is planning to visit Syria, Russian MP and Kadyrov’s cousin Adam Delimkhanov told media on 22 March, during a trip of Russian MPs to Aleppo. Delimkhanov refused to specify when Kadyrov was planning to visit. A detachment of 500 Russian military servicemen, including Chechens and Russian instructors, was sent to Syria at the end of last year. The main contingent of Chechen fighters consists of former soldiers from the disbanded Russian Vostok (east) and Zapad (