. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, explaining the charges the us government in the violation of human rights, joked to the TV channel "Russia 1" on awarding him the Nobel peace prize.

Kadyrov said that the decision to include family members in the sanctions list only laugh his family.

"Where did I violate human rights? On the contrary, we are fighting, dying, defending human rights. Stop the war destroyed the international terrorism. I thought I was going to get the Nobel prize for what I have overcome international terrorism, and they, on the Contrary, I was under punishment. Not fair, " he commented ironically.

Kadyrov has noticed that residents of the region the decision of the US capital strenghtens.

He also blamed the US is that their fault citizens are dying in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan.

earlier in the week, the state Department has made Kadyrov, as well as his wife and older daughters in the list of persons related, in the opinion of the Agency, to the violation of human rights, and imposed against them punishment.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov called the decision " unfriendly ". The head of Chechnya, for its part, retaliated regarding Secretary Mike Pompeo and his family members.



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