23 November 2019, 16:58
Enforcement to apologize in Chechnya hasn't spoiled British blogger's reputation
The blogger Benjamin's trip to Chechnya, where he was forced to apologize for his joke about Chechen girls in the video, has not diminished his popularity. Meanwhile, YouTube users have recalled that the republic has an image of a region, where human rights are violated and where visits require extraordinary courage.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 8, a video appeared in the Instagram community chp_chechenya with the apologies of the British blogger Benjamin who visited Chechnya. He apologized publicly for the phrase "Chechen chick."
In their comments to the November 5 video entitled "Would You Ride The Night Train To Chechnya?" which as of 7:00 a.m. Moscow time on November 23 gathered 608,418 pageviews, 2581 comments, 28,000 "likes" and 396 "dislikes", YouTube users treated the blogger, who had visited Chechnya, as a brave person.
"You are doing what I would like if I had the courage," the user Levi Richardson has written.
Some users have explicitly stated that they would not like to visit Chechnya, recalling human rights problems in the republic.
"Chechnya – isn't that a place, where people are kept in cages in the basement?" asked the user Save the Children.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 23, 2019 at 08:17 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
