Human Rights Commissar

What is known about the Chechen Ombudsman, who is constantly criticizing the opposition

Nurdi Nukhazhiev has been working on the Chechen Commissioner for Human Rights for Ten years. During this time, he became one of the main defenders of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov in the media. In March 2016, Nuhazhiev went on the offensive-he demanded that Ilya Yashin and journalist Elena Milashin start criminal cases for politics. Medusa talks about the Ombudsman, who was suspected of financial fraud in the late 1990s.

Dark past

Information about the life of Nurdi Nukhazhiev is quite contradictory. Some biographies say that from 1979 to 1996 he served in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , in others a mention of service is completely absent. It is known that Nukhazhiev lived outside Chechnya for a long time: he studied in Ukhta (Komi Republic) - there he graduated from the railway college, as well as in Ukraine.

Oppositionist Ilya Yashin, in his report, “ The Threat of National Security ”, claims that in 1995, Nukhazhiev was convicted of shooting in a restaurant (where this happened, is not specified). In 1997, in Ukhta, Nukhazhiev was suspected of collecting money from some students and left with these funds to Chechnya. The special services also suspected him of illegal financial transactions with false Aviso .

Nukhazhiev made a career in Ichkeria, according to the report of Ilya Yashin. In response to a request from law enforcement agencies, Ukhta reported about him that Nurdi Nukhazhiev works as an economic adviser to Salman Raduev, later convicted of terrorism. When it was Nukhazhiev who returned to Chechnya is unknown. One of the biographies says that in November 1996; In another - that he witnessed the assault on the Chechen mountains by federal troops in the first half of the same year. The inconsistencies with the dates are explained by scattered information about the biography of Nukhazhiev.

In the late 1990s, Nukhazhiev worked in the administration of the Gudermes district, then, in 2002, he became the head of the department for ensuring the activities of the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the observance of human rights and freedoms in Chechnya. Since then, Nukhazhiev has been engaged in “official human rights”-his posts were called differently, but were always associated with the “human rights”. The position of the Ombudsman under the head of Chechnya - her Nuhazhiev occupies now - he occupied in 2006.

Loyalty Kadyrov

Nurdie Nukhazhiev during his time it was established as an exclusively loyal Ramzan Kadyrov official. In 2008, when the head of Chechnya had a conflict with an influential Chechen family of the Yamadaevs , he actively supported Kadyrov. The murder of the State Duma deputy Ruslan Yamadaev Ombudsman considered an attempt to “ undermine the image ” of the head of Chechnya.

In 2009, Nukhazhiev complained to the prosecutor’s office-after the head of Memorial Oleg Orlov accused human rights activist Natalya Estemirova Ramzan Kadyrov, who personally threatened her .

In March 2016, on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya, unknown people beat journalists and human rights activists. At the same time, Kadyrov repeatedly said that he was not glad to human rights activists in the republic; Nukhazhiev said that human rights activists themselves were involved in this attack.

The Chechen Ombudsman also demanded to start a criminal case against Ilya Yashin for his “saturated” report on Kadyrov. He also asked to start a case of slander against the journalist Elena Milashina from Novaya Gazeta, who accused the closest ally of the Chechen president, the head of the Chechnya Parliament Magomed Daudov in the abduction of a human rights activist.

When it came to the possible resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen Ombudsman said that this would mean a massive violation of the rights of citizens living in Chechnya.

Strange statements

Nurdi Nukhazhiev believes that the name of his position should be renamed: instead of the “Commissioner for Human Rights” - “Commissioner for Human Rights”. As Nukhazhiev said , the “commissar” “will cause pleasant associations among citizens, since it is connected with it by many glorious pages and exploits in the history of Russia”.

The Chechen Ombudsman noted that "the democratic institutions of the Chechen society are hundreds and thousands of years." “Since the time of Sumer and Urartu, the Chechen people have developed a unique example of society, where their interests and interests of the individual are less balanced,” he said.

Nukhazhiev openly stands for polygamy (like Kadyrov and Dauds): “There is forces in the country that aloud and in all seriousness require and achieve the legalization of prostitution, same -sex marriages and the rights of sexual minorities to adopt children. All this is in addition presented as a blessing. But when, against this background, Muslims begin to talk about their law, this is perceived in hostility! By the way, no one canceled the article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the right to religion. ”

The opposition, according to Nurdi Nukhazhiev, “under the most plausible, beautiful slogans about democracy seeks to turn our country, its peoples into a biological mass that will not have an idea of ​​its history, religion, traditions, and culture.”