Wedding in Grozny

The head of the Chechen District Department of Internal Affairs still married a schoolgirl. Photo report by Sergey Ponomarev

In Grozny on Saturday, May 16, the head of the ROVD, Nazhd Guchigov, married a 17-year-old girl Louise Goylabieva. The wedding would certainly go unnoticed if it were not for the publication of the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina. She wrote that Guchigov supposedly wanted to take the schoolgirl by the second wife, in fact, a concubine. He himself assured that he did not know any Goylabieva and was not going to marry her. After the intervention of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, however, it turned out that the policeman (which is 47 years old) still wanted to marry, and the girl also agrees. Kadyrov himself ironically called the event "Wedding of the century." The photographer Sergey Ponomarev went to Grozny and observed the triumph where the bride was personally brought by the head of the administration of Chechnya, Magomed Daudov.