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Celebrations of the Republic Day passed in Grozny in a calm atmosphere, the city Mayoralty has reported. Local residents have told about enhanced security measures in the city centre.

The participants of the rally in support of the Myanmar Muslims, held in Grozny on September 4, represented North-Caucasian republics and praised the head of Chechnya and his father. However, there were no more than 100,000 of them, not 1.1 million declared by the authorities, the “Novaya Gazeta” reports.

According to Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an expert for Northern Caucasus, the most serious cases of human rights violations in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) are not comparable with the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar.

There is no Fronde on the part of the head of Chechnya in connection with his words about the events in Myanmar, since every person has the right to have his own opinion, the Russian President has stated.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, thanked Russian President for his condemnation of persecution of Muslims in Myanmar. This is not the first Kadyrov’s initiative supported by Vladimir Putin: upon Kadyrov’s submission, a law was adopted, banning to regard texts of sacred books as extremist.

At the rally organized in Grozny in support of the Myanmar Muslims, policemen did not allow people to leave the rally, eyewitnesses assert, telling about the cases when women-participants of the rally needed doctors’ help.

The today’s mass rally in support of Moslems held in Grozny was useless and belated, as the authorities of Myanmar, Russia and China will not take into account the Chechnya residents’ appeals. Users of social networks write about it ironically commenting on the over million-strong rally.

Today, 1.1 million people have come to a rally in central Grozny to support Muslims of Myanmar. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya. According to the "Rosstat" (Federal State Statistics Service), in total, the population of the republic reaches about 1.4 million residents.

An appeal to the President of Russia adopted at a rally in Grozny contains a call for intervention in the situation in Myanmar. The authorities reported about a million of people who took part in the rally, and Grozny residents complained about traffic jams in the city.

At a rally in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov has condemned the global community's inaction in connection with the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar.

If the Russian authorities take the side of the organizers of the Muslims' persecution in Myanmar, their position will be contrary to that of Chechen authorities. This was stated by Ramzan Kadyrov. Meanwhile, in Chechnya itself, Salafis are subjected to persecution.

Employees of public institutions, students, and other citizens are involved to participate in the today's rally. Teachers of schools were informed about the cancellation of classes because of the rally.