11:39, 24 March 2021

Over 70% of "Novaya Gazeta" poll participants support idea of litigation with Kadyrov

Ramzan Kadyrov. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Photo: Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS screenshot https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/03/18/vopros-chitateliam-podavat-li-redaktsii-novoi-v-sud-na-ramzana-kadyrova

The idea of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper to go to court in connection with the harsh attacks of the head of Chechnya was supported by 71% of the voting participants. Some Facebook users found a lawsuit appropriate, while their opponents doubted that the court would be impartial.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta" did not rule out that it would go to court after the "unacceptable attacks" of the Chechen leadership against journalists, and announced on its website a readers' vote on the expediency of filing a lawsuit against Kadyrov "for saying that the newspaper is an 'agent of well-known Western services'."

On March 15, the "Novaya Gazeta" published a story by Suleiman Gezmakhmaev, a former soldier of the Akhmat Kadyrov Special Police Regiment, about torture and extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. After that, the soldiers of the regiment, in their appeal to Vladimir Putin, called on him to stop the "information war" against the regiment. Dmitry Peskov, the presidential press secretary, noted that the appeal was not to the right address and offered the servicemen to file a lawsuit. Kadyrov objected to Peskov stating that "citizens have every right to appeal to the president."

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 23, 2021 at 04:19 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.