YouTube users criticize Tumso Abdurakhmanov’s arguments in dispute with Ilya Yashin

In his comments on the statements voiced by Moscow oppositionist Ilya Yashin about Chechnya and Ramzan Kadyrov, Tumso Abdurakhmanov made an inaccuracy while describing an escape of Khalimat Taramova, social media users noted in their comments to the blogger’s video. Many of them reproached Tumso Abdurakhmanov for insufficient reasoning about the land conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on November 5, Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov posted his video comments to the Ilya Yashin’s video “Kadyrov’s land. How Putin gives up the Caucasus. 18+”. Tumso Abdurakhmanov emphasized that in many aspects he is in solidarity with the Ilya Yashin’s opinion and made several comments on the Moscow oppositionist’s statements.

In their comments to the video, YouTube users pointed out the inaccuracy in the blogger’s words about Chechen native Khalimat Taramova.

While commenting on the Ilya Yashin’s opinion about polygamy, Tumso Abdurakhmanov mentioned the example of Khalimat Taramova, cited by the Moscow oppositionist, as “inappropriate.” In his video, Ilya Yashin claims that “the Chechen authorities often interfere in family affairs” when “a woman runs away from her husband who beats her” and recalls the story of Khalimat Taramova, who “was hiding from domestic violence” in a Makhachkala shelter. “But the fact is that Khalimat Taramova is not even married, she had no problems with husband, and her story has nothing to do with polygamy at all,” Tumso Abdurakhmanov said in his video.

However, when Khalimat Taramova herself called the hotline of the “LGBT Network” before fleeing from Chechnya, she claimed that she was “forcibly kept married.”

The largest number of critical comments was provoked by the Tumso Abdurakhmanov’s statement about the disputed lands on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

According to Tumso Abdurakhmanov, it was not Ramzan Kadyrov who decided to annex part of the Ingush lands to Chechnya in 2018, but on the contrary, the authorities of Ingushetia decided to appropriate part of the Chechen lands in the early 2000s.

“I would like Tumso to document his words that those lands were part of Chechnya. It’s just not the first time I’ve heard about that, but I have never seen the evidence,” user ZukhraEkazheva commented on the Tumso Abdurakhmanov’s statement.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 8, 2021 at 02:41 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.