No Instagram account is more entertaining, more dumbfounding, and more terrifying than that of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. On any given day, one is guaranteed to see video clips ranging from Kadyrov praying before dawn in the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque to playing soccer at the FC Terek facilities (Kadyrov was the President of FC Terek from 2004 to 2011) to speaking to visibly shaken construction employees at delayed project sites. Kadyrov’s Instagram account is a vivid reminder that his control of Chechnya is absolute and unparalleled among the heads of state in Russia’s twenty-two republics. Recent developments in eastern Ukraine …read more
Source: Atlantic Council