• One among Russia’s high journalists, decides to go away the nation briefly after receiving death threats.
• A paper says she has obtained threats in latest days from outstanding representatives of Chechnya.
  
• Nevertheless, she is going to proceed to cowl rights and politics in Chechnya.
  

MOSCOW: An award-winning investigative journalist, Elena Milashina, is briefly leaving Russia after receiving death threats from the management of Chechnya, her newspaper stated.

Milashina has lined rights abuses in Chechnya for Russia’s high unbiased newspaper Novaya Gazeta for years and gained a number of worldwide awards.

The paper stated she had obtained threats in latest days from outstanding representatives of Chechnya, a southern area of Russia the place the Kremlin fought wars towards separatists within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s.

“The editorial board decided to send Elena Milashina on a business trip outside of Russia,” Novaya Gazeta stated in an announcement, citing “numerous” threats from outstanding Chechen figures.

Milashina, 44, will proceed to cowl rights and politics in Chechnya, the place a neighborhood strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, emerged as a pacesetter after the wars.

“Her location will in no way affect the coverage of rights issues in Chechnya,” the assertion stated.

Novaya Gazeta, whose chief editor Dmitry Muratov gained the Nobel Peace Prize final yr, has since 2000 seen six of its journalists and contributors killed, together with investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya.

By specializing in rights abuses in Chechnya, Milashina has adopted within the footsteps of Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin’s insurance policies in Chechnya, who was shot lifeless in 2006.

Kadyrov in late January referred to as Milashina and rights activist Igor Kalyapin “terrorists” and urged legislation enforcement to detain them.

The Chechen authorities this week staged what they stated was a 400,000-strong all-male rally towards critics — together with Milashina — within the area’s most important metropolis, Grozny.

Muratov instructed AFP on Friday {that a} choice had been taken to ship Milashina overseas after the rally.

“We can´t know for certain who would come up with the idea of carrying out these threats,” he stated, including that it was laborious to know when Milashina would be capable to return.

Milashina instructed unbiased TV channel Dozhd that she was involved about her security.

“This is a very serious situation,” she stated Thursday night.

Milashina has obtained death threats previously and beforehand needed to depart Russia for a number of months.

Rights teams have been elevating issues a couple of latest string of alleged kidnappings, detentions and threats in tightly-controlled Chechnya.

A Chechen lawmaker, Adam Delimkhanov, not too long ago threatened on social media to “cut off the heads” of a crucial choose and his relations.

On Wednesday, Putin met with Kadyrov within the Kremlin, and the Kremlin spokesman afterwards denied that the state of affairs in Chechnya was “out of control”.