Tag: Ilyas Umakhanov

Putin’s New Nationalities Chief Says His Job Is To ‘Prevent Pogroms In Biryulevo’

April 4, 2015

Staunton, April 3 — Vladimir Putin has chosen a Duma deputy from Sverdlovsk with an FSB background and service in the notorious Alpha Group during his Chechen wars to be the head of the new Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, an indication of how the Kremlin leader intends to use this new tool and why […]