The case of the kidnapping and arrest of Zarema Musaeva Yangulbayev, mother of a Chechen opponent, in Nijni Novgorod, then the threats of beheading of her entire family, have caused a lot of ink to flow in Russia.
With our correspondent in Moscow, Anissa el-Jabri
The Kremlin had signaled on Wednesday that a meeting with the Chechen strongman was not on the agenda. Last night Ramzan Kadyrov’s press service released a photo of the Russian president with his Chechen counterpart. No date, no place and only one precision: the meeting took place in Moscow.
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Only then did Ramzan Kadyrov say: The Russian president supported us. The only reaction from the Kremlin on the merits of the case via its spokesperson on Wednesday.
Threat
The ethics committee of the Duma and the ruling party must react to the words of a deputy. He had threatened, like many Chechen institutions, the entire Yangulbayev family with beheading. No sanction in sight for this deputy close ally of the Chechen leader under US sanctions and wanted in Dubai in connection with the murder of a Chechen general in 2009.
The Duma’s ethics committee kicked in touch: it does not have, it says, a Chechen interpreter who could confirm the nature of the threats. ” What is not sanctioned is allowed “commented the newspaper Kommersant.