The New Times then wrote: another loud murder in the North Caucasus. The famous human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was stolen and shot in Grozny. Her colleagues indicate a possible organizer of the crime - President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

I have a purely negative attitude to the recently adopted and sensational law on NGOs for several reasons. If this is the so-called “asymmetric response” to the passage of the Magnitsky Act by the US Congress, then it most of all reminds me of Saltykov-Shchedrin and the non-commissioned officer's widow who flogged herself because this law harms Russian society.