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In Chechnya, the rhythm does indeed stop
The beat can only slap if it’s between 80 and 116bpm.
The high bpm rave and techno bops enjoyed in Western countries are clearly out, but this ban would even prevent people from listening to fairly somber tracks like Nirvana’s 120bpm hit “Come as You Are” — if the song wasn’t already restricted in the deeply conservative Russian republic. Chechnya has been repeatedly criticized by foreign governments and human rights organizations, with the republic’s authoritarian leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, having vocally supported “honor killings” against women and sexual minorities. In response to reports in 2017 that concentration camps had been set up by Chechen authorities to torture gay men, Kadyrov claimed that LGBTQ+ individuals “” in the region.
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