The Parliament of Chechnya asked to check Andrei Piontkovsky’s article for extremism

The Parliament of Chechnya asked for an article by Andrey Piontkovsky entitled " A bomb ready to explode " to be checked for extremism. According to the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Magomed Daudov, in the publication Piontkovsky "openly calls for the separation of the Chechen Republic from the Russian Federation."

In addition, the parliament demanded that Ekho Moskvy, on whose website this article was published, be brought to justice.

The article, titled "A Bomb Ready to Explode," came out on January 23. Initially, it did contain calls to separate Chechnya from Russia, and Russia from Chechnya, but then the last two paragraphs were deleted. to this Journalist Oleg Kashin drew attention .

• Piontkovsky wrote an article on the traces of an absentee conflict between the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the opposition, whose representatives he called enemies of the people. Daudov, in turn, published a photo of a Caucasian shepherd dog, whose “fangs itch” at oppositionists and human rights activists. On January 22, a rally for Kadyrov was held in Grozny.