The strong man of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, likes to put himself on stage, during meetings where he gives his instructions to ministers and advisers who do not say words. On April 13, a video showed him thus, enthroned among his Areopagus, launched into a long rant in which he threatened the death of a journalist because of an article on the epidemic.
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The day before, in the Russian opposition newspaper Novaïa Gazeta , Elena Milachina described how, in this autonomous territory of Russia, Chechens contaminated by the virus did not dare to address the under-equipped hospitals. According to the journalist, many people were detained by the security forces for violating the "self-isolation regime". "If you want us to commit a crime and become murderers, say so," says Kadyrov in this video, speaking to the FSB, the Russian security services, to ask them to crack down on the newspaper. Since the 2017 investigations he published on the persecution
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