"Kommersant" reports about dismissal of Chechen police chief

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the dismissal of Chechen Police Chief Apti Alaudinov, the "Kommersant" reports today.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 15, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" posted a story reported by Suleiman Gezmakhmaev, a former fighter of the Akhmat Kadyrov special-purpose police regiment, who witnessed extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. After that, at a rally in Grozny, relatives of the police regiment's fighters accused Elena Milashina, an author of the article released by the "Novaya Gazeta", of provocations. The fighters of the Akhmat Kadyrov special-purpose police regiment recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin and urged him to stop the "information war" against the police regiment.

On March 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decree No. 149 to dismiss Apti Alaudinov, the Police Chief and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, the "Kommersant" reports today with reference to sources, which are not disclosed. According to the "Novaya Gazeta", the decree No. 149 mentioned the dismissal of Apti Alaudinov as the first issue.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 19, 2021 at 12:36 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.