Two respected Italian organisations, the Gaetano Salvemini Foundation for Storological Studies and the Vera Nocentini Cultural Association, invited Akhmed Zakayev to speak at Turin’s most famous cultural venue on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Italians eager to see the hero of the Chechen resistance were prepared for the parallels between Russia’s war against Ukraine and its war against Ichkeria.
But Akhmed Zakayev explained in detail that Boris Yeltsin began killing in neighbouring countries, not in the Chechen Republic, in 1994, but from the first day of the “new democratic Russia.” Russia began killing in January 1992. Italians are learning unfamiliar terms that weren’t previously in their vocabulary—Khojaly, Sukhumi, Gamsakhurdia, Transnistria, Prigorodny, Khankendi. Hundreds of thousands killed. Genocide of Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Moldovans, and Ingush. Italians have never heard of it, because there are such people on earth—”good Russians.”
Europeans are learning this term, too. Our friends from Radicale Italiani already know well who the “Buoni Russi” are, that they are as treacherous and conscienceless as Putin. Now they link the murder of Antonio Russo in Georgia to the criminal regime of Eduard Shevardnadze and no longer wonder why “democrat Shevardnadze” allowed the murderers of the Italian journalist to escape and destroy evidence of the Russian army’s crimes against the Chechen civilian population.
I NEWS (Ichkeria News)
