Kadyrov names Grozny hospital after Elizaveta Glinka

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the awarding the name of Elizaveta Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza, who perished in the crash of the Tu-154 in Sochi, to the Republic's Children Hospital in Grozny. Valery Khalilov, the Artistic Director of the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble, who also perished in the crash, is awarded by the medal "For Merits to the Chechen Republic" posthumously.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 25, the Tu-154 aircraft of the Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) took off from Sochi to Syria and disappeared from radar screens. Fragments of the aircraft body were found 1.5 km off the Black Sea coast of Sochi. There were 92 persons on board: 64 performers of the Alexandrov Ensemble, nine journalists, eight servicemen, eight crew members, two civil servants and Elizaveta Glinka, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council.

The renaming of the hospital was reported by the head of Chechnya in his Instagram.

Elizaveta Glinka used to regularly draw attention to problems of the Caucasus; her fund helped people, including natives from the Caucasian republics. In 2008, the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published an article, reporting that Ms Glinka, as the head of the "Fair Aid" Foundation, helped Moscow homeless residents, including natives from Chechnya and Dagestan.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.