From the President’s Epistle: An amnesty in Chechnya will help to return to peaceful life for those who are ready for this

The Constitutional referendum, who held in March in Chechnya, showed that the Chechens are rightfully reading themselves an integral part of a single multinational Russian people. ” This was stated by Vladimir Putin, who spoke in the Kremlin with an annual message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports.

“Today,” he said, “I especially thank the Chechen people for the courage, for not allowing and not allowing themselves to intimidate, for the wisdom invariably inherent in the simple but sensitive to truth to people. People in Chechnya felt their responsibility and their human interest.”

As the president noted, "the constitutional referendum in the republic held a line under the era of timelessness, under the years when the power in Chechnya was assigned bandits when the residents of the republic literally ended up in the Middle Ages."

But in order for life in the republic to finally normalize, according to Putin, there is a "very much to do very, very much."

In particular, according to the head of state: "It is necessary on a democratic basis, in accordance with the referendum by the Constitution, to elect the president and parliament of the republic."

“We will also have to transfer law enforcement in the Republic of Law Enforcement in the hands of the Chechen police,” Putin said. “In addition, as part of the continuation of the process of political settlement and, as you know, together with the State Duma, preparations for amnesty are underway.”

According to the president, the amnesty "will create conditions for involving in the peaceful life of those who have not done this before, but ready to do this now. All this will have to be done in difficult conditions."

"It is obvious that the remnants of the bandits will strive through the threats and murders to intimidate the inhabitants of the republic, to disrupt the dynamically advancing political process," the president said. “And we see that the terrorist attacks committed by bandits are increasingly sent against the civilian population, against ordinary people.”

“But we will certainly bring the begun to the end. People in Chechnya will live in a normal human life,” the President of Russia emphasized.