The crisis group SK SOS demanded that Ruslan Kutaev be removed from the Russian platform at PACE after his statements in an interview with The Breakfast Show . When discussing helping Chechen women and queer people fleeing violence and persecution, he said he did not want to address the issue, citing his membership in the “conservative part of Chechen society.” He also said that decisions about a person’s fate “ripe in the family” and are made by the family.