
Chechnya
Chechen woman detained by police has been unreachable for three weeks, activists say
Human rights advocates say lawyers are being denied access to Belkisa Mintsaeva.

Human rights advocates say lawyers are being denied access to Belkisa Mintsaeva.

The commander of Akhmat, Apti Alaudinov, describes the claims as ‘fairy tales’ and ‘the work of AI’.

Their author, according to social media, is an 18-year-old émigré from Daghestan.

Rights groups had earlier called on PACE to suspend Ruslan Kutaev.

Putin met Kadyrov in the Kremlin late on Wednesday evening.

Berlin called Moscow’s statements unfounded after German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The authorities annulled a decision adopted several days earlier, citing a threat to public security.