Tumso criticizes Argun police boss for joke with threats

Kadyrov's threats addressed to social network users were followed by a jokingly designed post of Alikhan Tsakaev, the police head of the city of Argun, on the Instagram about the efficiency of a "pistol safety-stop click" and a "bullet in the leg" as methods of influencing people's attitudes and behaviour. In the realities of Chechnya, such a post is not perceived as a joke, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has stated.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 4, at his meeting with the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov demanded to identify authors of negative materials about the republic and social network users commenting on them. In his speech, Ramzan Kadyrov attacked those who "violated the agreement between people, being engaged in gossip and contentions." The leader of Chechnya suggested stopping such people "by killing, imprisoning, and intimidating them," the BBC Russian Service quoted on November 7 on its website Ramzan Kadyrov as saying.

Ten days after Kadyrov's statement, the above Alikhan Tsakaev, the chief officer of the Argun branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), promoted violent methods in his Instagram page, which, according to his version, could easily achieve the desired behaviour. "Scientists have proved that a pistol safety-stop click replaces 40 minutes of educational conversation, while a bullet hitting the leg is an almost 100% guarantee of a person's changing his views on life," he wrote on November 14. The post was accompanied by laughing emojis.

Many comments posted in Tsakaev's have treated his post as funny and expressed their approval. But some of social network users took the words of the police officer seriously. "No one doubts that in one small but proud republic this postulate is used as the truth and a mandatory precept for action," the user _dm_p_ wrote.

The blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a well-known critic of the Chechen authorities, has also paid attention to the post. "You see what sort of jokes Alikhan Tsakaev, the Russia's MIA boss in Argun, likes! It would have been funny, if not so sad," Tumso wrote on his Telegram channel on November 16.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 18, 2019 at 04:30 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.