Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

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Vadim Krasikov. Photo via Caucasian Knot.

Chechnya

Chechen diaspora communities protest extradition of Russian agent Vadim Krasikov

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•2 min read

Several Chechen diaspora communities in Europe have protested the extradition of Vadim Krasikov, a Russian FSB agent convicted in Germany for the murder of Ichkerian commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Isa Daduev, coordinator of the Assembly of Chechens of Europe, told OC Media that protests were held in France, Austria, and Germany to express disagreement with the extradition of Krasikov back to Russia. Krasikov previously received a life sentence from a Berlin court in 2021 for the murder o

Chechnya

Russia designates Chechen activist in exile ‘foreign agent’

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•1 min read

Russia’s Justice Ministry has reportedly added Aslan Arzuyev, a Chechen human rights activist based in Germany, to its register of ‘foreign agents’. According to the ministry, Arzuyev ‘made calls for action, the results of which could lead to a violation of the territorial integrity of Russia’, ‘disseminated false information aimed at creating a negative image’ of the country and the army, spoke against the war in Ukraine, and created material in collaboration with‘foreign agents’. Arzuye

Chechnya

Guilty verdict in Khangoshvili killing as judge accuses Russia of ‘state terrorism’

by Silvia Stöber

•4 min read

A court in Berlin has sentenced a Russian citizen to life in prison for the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian of Chechen origin, accusing the Kremlin of being behind the killing. The presiding judge, Olaf Arnoldi, spoke of state terrorism in his verdict. The defendant had committed the murder, he said, out of insidiousness and a political motive. The Russian central government in Moscow commissioned the crime and was responsible for it, the judge stated. Khangoshvili was gunned d

Chechnya

Khangoshvili murder trial kicks off in Berlin

by Silvia Stöber

•2 min read

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was gunned down in a park in Berlin in August 2019; a man German authorities say is Vadim Krasikov went on trial for the killing on Wednesday. The crime scene is located only a few hundred metres from the court building where the trial of Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov has now begun. On 23 August 2019, he is said to have shot Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian from the Pankisi Valley. It was not just a simple murder. The Federal Prosecutor General (Generalbundesanwalt)

Chechnya

Protests in several European cities over Khangoshvili killing

by OC Media

•4 min read

Protests have been held in several European cities in connection with the murder in Berlin of former Chechen independence fighter and Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Khangoshvili, 40, was shot dead on 23 August in the Kleiner Tiergarten park in Berlin, as he was on his way to the mosque. Members of his family claim that Russian intelligence agencies may be involved in the murder. Khangoshvili, who was wanted by the Russian authorities on terrorism charges, had survived earlier h

Georgia

Georgian national, Chechnya–Russia war veteran killed in Berlin

by OC Media

•3 min read

German police have arrested a Russian citizen suspected of murder of the Second Chechen War veteran, Georgian national Zelimkhan Khangoshvili from Pankisi valley. Khangoshvili, who was on his way to the mosque, was attacked and killed in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten park on 23 August. Zelimkhan Khangoshvili participated in the 2001–2005 Chechen–Russian war and, according to rights group Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC), was targeted by Russian authorities ever since. K