Chechen ombudsman calls the beating of journalist and lawyer “a diversion”
Pravda Ukraine
Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev has called the attack on Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Grozny a “diversion and provocation”.
Source: Russia’s RBK, with reference to Soltaev’s statement
Quote: “It was a bold, subversive provocation against the republic.