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Chechen Culture Minister Musa Dadayev announced at a meeting on Friday the decision to limit the tempo of all musical, vocal and choreographic works from 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM), Russian state news agency TASS reported.
“I announced the final decision, agreed with the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov, that from now on all musical, vocal and choreographic works must correspond to a tempo between 80 and 116 beats per minute,” said M. Dadayev.
According to R. Kadyrov’s instructions, the region now ensures that Chechen music and dance works correspond to the “Chechen mentality and musical rhythm”, aiming for “the future of people and our children to receive the cultural heritage of the Chechen nation”, M. Dadayev added.
The ban means that many styles of music such as pop and techno songs will be banned.
Chechnya is located in the North Caucasus region between the Caspian and Black seas. It is an almost exclusively Muslim republic that includes part of Russia’s border with Georgia.
R. Kadyrov has been in charge of Chechnya since 2007. and goes about his duties to quell any discord.
There were also reports of waves of violence against homosexuals during his tenure.
in 2017 At the beginning of the year, United Nations human rights experts called on the authorities to investigate allegations of violence and detention of LGBT people. According to local media reports, some of them were killed because of their sexuality.
Another wave of anti-LGBT harassment was reported in 2019. in January, when activists say dozens of men and women were detained and at least two of them died in custody.
In response, R. Kadyrov stated that there are no homosexuals in his republic, and if there are, they should be removed from the region.
The pro-Kremlin leader has also cracked down on Chechnya’s separatist movement, which has fought for independence from Russia for nearly two decades.
in 2020 in July, the US State Department imposed sanctions on R. Kadyrov for “participation in gross human rights violations”.
According to a statement by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the department had “substantial credible information” about Kadyrov’s responsibility “for a series of gross human rights violations spanning more than a decade, including torture and extrajudicial killings.”
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2024-04-10 11:41:39