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The Basmann District Court of Moscow refused to consider the complaint of Novaya Gazeta about the inaction of the Investigation Committee on the publication in the publication on the persecution of gays in Chechnya. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the court to Juno Tsarev.

The court returned the complaint of the lawyer of the publication Andrei Sabinin to eliminate the deficiencies, Tsareva said. "According to the applicant, the head of the Investigative Committee was obliged to take measures to verify the information about the crime. At the same time, the applicant did not provide information about whether he was checked by the fact of an instruction by the chairman of the department to verify the crime reported in the media," she said.

On April 1 and 5, two articles by Elena Milashina on the brutal persecution of gays in Chechnya were published in Novaya. The journalist wrote about mass detentions, torture and murders of homosexuals. Then, several media outlets appeared evidence of the victims of persecution from Chechnya.

Chechen officials reacted extremely sharply to publication. In "New" they regarded statements made in Chechnya as a direct call for reprisal against journalists . On April 17, the press service of the Investigative Committee said that the department was checking information about threats to the journalists of Novaya Gazeta and Echo of Moscow. At the same time, the press service noted that in the Investigative Committee of the Chechnya, "no appeals about the persecution of persons of non-traditional sexual orientation were received." Nevertheless, on April 17, Milashin reported that the TFR began to verify the facts of gay persecution in Chechnya published by the publication.

On April 20, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin , called the “provocative” articles about the Chechen Republic, about the people, about the events that we allegedly occur, detentions. ” Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Kadyrov assured the head of state that there can be no talk of any threats to journalists for the situation in the republic. At the same time, Peskov noted that the media reports themselves about the alleged persecution of persons of non -traditional sexual orientation in Chechnya are not confirmed.

On April 20, the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova said she doubts the reliability of information about the persecution of gays in Chechnya. “I have suspicions that this is a provocation, that this is a false denunciation,” said the Ombudsman. “I’m not ready to draw these conclusions today, but the conclusions need to be drawn. What is it really, people have suffered, or does someone want to speculate on this?”

However, on May 5, Moskalkova, at a meeting with Putin, stated that she was involved in the problem of "persons of non -traditional orientation" who turned to her in connection with a violation of their rights. “I sent a number of petitions to the prosecutor’s office, the investigating authorities. And I would ask you to give an order, possibly, about the creation of an interdepartmental working group, which could here, in the central part, and not in the territory of Chechnya, accept appeals from citizens, if any,” Moskalkova said.

For his part, Putin promised to discuss with the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev the position of gays in the North Caucasus . "Of course, I will talk with the general prosecutor, Minister of the Interior, so that they support you on the topic that you have raised now, according to the well -known information or by rumors, we can say what is happening in our North Caucasus with people of non -traditional sexual orientation. This is itself. I hope the colleagues will respond and will support you," Putin said. This was the first public statement by the president about the persecution of gays in Chechnya.