Alekseeva: vertical of power is to be blamed for Dzhabrailov's and Sadulayeva's murders in Chechnya

In the opinion of Liudmila Alekseeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, the murders in Chechnya of Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzhabrailov - leaders of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation" - is a result of the vertical of power, built at different levels.

"I don't know, why they were killed, but I'm sure that here the notorious vertical of power was in play, which was erected in our country. A very interesting vertical, which doesn't mean at all that if a person standing in the top of the vertical gives an order, it will be immediately executed; and nobody but him can give such order. Nothing of the kind. Here, every bureaucrat has built his own vertical under and for himself - at the regional, city or district level, even at micro-level. And, consequently, if Zarema had failed to please any of such persons, not even Kadyrov, or, moreover, Putin, but someone else, they could kill her," Ms Alekseeva said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"You see, Chechnya is occupied by such people who for 10 years were at war in their territory. A generation has grown for this time, which knows no other life. A human life costs nothing there," said Ms Alekseeva. According to her story, it is twice as awful that this happens not only in Chechnya, as many power and law-enforcement units have been sent to Chechnya, accumulated this sort of "experience" there, and now use it in their regions.

"Thus, in this case I don't even think that there was some Kadyrov's order. But, nevertheless, he is responsible, and Putin is responsible for the system they have set up, where every boss has his vertical, knowing that he is atop of it and unpunished whatever he makes," Ms Alekseeva has concluded.