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Vladimir Putin does not yet plan to meet with Ramzan Kadyrov, but he will receive an appeal from the Ekho Moskvy radio station, which was concerned about the threats the head of Chechnya made to journalists, in particular Novaya Gazeta. This was announced by the representative of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
The editors of Ekho, as Novaya wrote today, called on Putin to intervene in the situation with threats from Kadyrov.
“This appeal will be reported to the head of state today,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Peskov indicated that “yes, we noticed that you turned to the president.”
The editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, published an appeal in defense of his colleagues. “In connection with the threats that are heard against our colleagues from Novaya Gazeta and the Dozhd TV channel (Recognized as a foreign media agent – Rosbalt) from the head of the Chechen Republic, we want to express our solidarity with the journalists of these publications.
The editors of the radio station asked the President of the Russian Federation, as the guarantor of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, to intervene in this situation.
She also urged law enforcement to pay attention to the statements of Kadyrov, “a high-ranking official who is a general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” In the appeal, the statements of the head of the republic are called “violating the laws of the Russian Federation.”
Earlier, Novaya Gazeta demanded that the Investigative Committee initiate a criminal case against Kadyrov under the article on inciting hatred or enmity for calling “terrorists” the journalist of the publication Elena Milashina and a member of the presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) Igor Kalyapin.
The head of Chechnya said that he considers Milashina and the human rights activist “accomplices of terrorists” “who make money on the topic of the Chechen Republic and Chechens,” and called on the security forces to detain them.
Peskov has already spoken out about this scandal, noting at the time that the Kremlin “would prefer not to comment or interfere in any way” in the background and in “clarification of these relations.”
Earlier today, the Kremlin responded to MP Delimkhanov’s call to “cut off the heads” of Russian citizens. Read more here.
Source: Rosbalt
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