Yuri Chaika. Photo by the government of Krasnodar territory

22 January 2020, 23:58

Rights defenders call on new presidential envoy to "go back to the good old days" in Northern Caucasus

Earlier, Yuri Chaika, the new presidential envoy to Northern Caucasus, has showed himself as a defender of human rights, notes human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Vladimir Putin appointed Yuri Chaika, the former General Prosecutor, the presidential envoy to Northern Caucasus.

When Yuri Chaika held the position of the Minister of Justice and the General Prosecutor, he sided with human rights defenders, states Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the "Civic Assistance Committee". She has expressed the hope that at his new position, Yuri Chaika will defend the rights of residents of Northern Caucasus.

Yuri Chaika is the most influential figure of the officials who ever held the position of the plenipotentiary envoy to Northern Caucasus, notes Mikhail Vinogradov, the president of the "Saint Petersburg Politics" Foundation.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 22, 2020 at 05:33 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

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