Photo: RIA Novosti Department of the interior in Chechnya checked the information about the oppression of individuals based on sexual orientation in the Republic. Given in the publication information was not confirmed, said the Minister of internal Affairs of the region Ruslan Alkhanov. His words are on the Agency’s website. “Pseudosection statement about the alleged detention of more than 160 homosexual men, 50 of whom were killed has no basis in fact and is frivolous”, — he said. According to a senior security officer, law enforcement agencies did not received any appeal on such occasions. “Meanwhile, the Ministry of internal Affairs on CHR checks every fact, announced in the media on the subject, and the hype is overblown individual pseudoplasticity of the Chechen people, is provocative and aims to discredit in the eyes of the public of the Chechen Republic”, — said Alkhanov. The materials of official investigation sent to
