Residents of Borozdinovskaya will be included in the program for protecting witnesses

The plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak "instructed to take all measures to protect the witnesses who gave the investigating group a testimony of investigating the incident in the village of Brozdinovskaya." Including - include some of them in the federal protection program. About this, as Gazeta.ru reports, the press secretary of the envoy Fedor Shcherbakov said on Monday. In addition, the Kozak instructed the internal affairs bodies to organize a checkpoint at the entrance to the village.

“This is the decision,” Interfax quotes Shcherbakova, “is connected with the information that appeared about constant threats to those who are actively cooperating with the investigation and helping to deal with the incident.”

On Monday, the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov also commented on the situation in Borozdinovskaya. He, as the Echo of Moscow reports, said that he guarantees complete safety to the inhabitants of the village. In addition, Kadyrov claims that the refugees agreed to return from Dagestan to Chechnya. It is more than a thousand people.

The fact that the residents intend to return was already stated at the end of last week the head of the Chechen government commission to resolve the situation in the Borozdinovskaya Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov. However, soon the residents themselves refuted this statement. According to them, they will not return until the fate of people stolen in the village is clarified.

The cleansing in Borozdinovskaya was carried out in early June presumably by the fighters of the Vostok battalion, led by Sulim Yamadaev. Yamadaev himself denies this. There were several houses in the village, two people died. Another 11 inhabitants of the village disappeared.

After stripping, the Avars living in Borozdinovskaya held several protests and left for Dagestan in protest. They settled in a camp near Kizlyar.