Marat Iliyasov: Chechnya, Kadyrov & the War Russia Wants You to Forget | Kianistan Podcast EP 150
☕ SUPPORT THE SHOWbuymeacoffee.com/tafhimkianzDr Marat Iliyasov joins the Kianistan Podcast for Episode 150 — the conversation on Chechnya we've been wanting to have for a long time.Dr Iliyasov, a Chechen scholar who completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews and now teaches at the College of the Holy Cross, takes us through the whole arc: Ramzan Kadyrov's grip on the republic and his fragile health, the two wars of the 1990s, Stalin's mass deportation of 1944, and the century-long confrontation with the Russian Empire that came before all of it.We discuss why a republic of 1.5 million…
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