See how the mainstream media is twisting the facts. It is well known that close to 90% of the EU asylum seekers from Russia are ethnic Chechens, or other Muslim north Caucasus people. But the media want to tarnish Russia and the Russians, so they are painting him as a Russian.
Chechnya is part of Russia, therefore he is Russian.
Why to tarnish Russia you can just read the posts of pro-Putin people, and you will understand, that these are fucking backward people.