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Welcome to Chechnya, directed by David France and produced by Alice Henty, David France, Askold Kurov, and Joy A. Tomchin, 2020, 107 minutes. Russian and Chechen with English subtitles. Webpage: https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/welcome-to-chechnya.

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Welcome to Chechnya, directed by David France and produced by Alice Henty, David France, Askold Kurov, and Joy A. Tomchin, 2020, 107 minutes. Russian and Chechen with English subtitles. Webpage: https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/welcome-to-chechnya.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

Roman Utkin*
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University

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Notes

1 Interfaks, “Kadyrov predlozhil Kanade zabrat’ k sebe geev iz Chechni,” July 15, 2017, accessed December 20, 2020, https://www.interfax.ru/russia/570703

2 Der Standard, “Zweifel an ‘Schwulengefängnis’ in Tschetschenien,” May 19, 2017, accessed December 20, 2020, https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000057974410/zweifel-an-schwulengefaengnis-in-tschetschenien.

3 “Prem’era fil’ma ‘Dobro pozhalovat’ v Chechniu vstrevozhila chechenskoe obshchestvo,” Chechenskaia gosudarstvennaia teleradiokompaniia “Groznyi,” uploaded July 2, 2020, YouTube video, accessed December 20, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5V5UZctUE.

4 France, David, “Interview with the Director of Welcome to Chechnya,” interview by Martin, Michel, All Things Considered, NPR, June 28, 2020, accessed December 20, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/06/28/884458992/interview-with-the-director-of-welcome-to-chechnya Google Scholar; Gessen, Masha, “The Gay Men Who Fled Chechnya’s Purge,” The New Yorker, July 3, 2017, accessed December 20, 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-gay-men-who-fled-chechnyas-purge Google Scholar. See also Maliukova, Larisa, “Sochuvstvie bol’she strakha: interv’iu s rezhisserom fil’ma ‘Dobro pozhalovat’ v Chechniu,” Novaia gazeta, January 6, 2020, accessed December 20, 2020, https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/01/26/83637-sochuvstvie-bolshe-straha-intervyu-s-rezhisserom-filma-dobro-pozhalovat-v-chechnyu-mirovaya-premiera-segodnya Google Scholar.

5 Russia’s Investigative Committee rejected Lapunov’s case. Lapunov then took his case to the European Court of Human Rights, where it is currently pending. See Lapunov v. Russia, App. No. 28834/14, Eur. Ct. H.R. (2019), accessed December 20, 2020, https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-199016%22]}.