The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality and silencing critics of both Kadyrov's and Putin's regimes. The Kadyrov family has been able to ...

Last week the Chechen leader asked his 1.8 million Instagram followers to help find his missing cat, a Toyger, a domestic cat bred to resemble a little tiger. MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Governor of ...

Kadyrov has demonstrated unquestioned loyalty to Putin while transforming Chechnya into his personal fiefdom, complete with his own private army numbering in the tens of thousands. On January 6, ...

Ramzan Kadyrov wore a catheter on his right hand while chairing an emergency meeting The powerful leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has told an interviewer "I'm absolutely healthy", without ...

The property’s estimated value is $14.4 million. According to journalists from Ukrainska Pravda, Kadyrov started using the villa as an “unofficial Chechen embassy” in 2014, well before his cousin ...

A former rebel chief, he had challenged the Moscow-backed Kadyrov for control of Chechen security forces until last year, when he was dismissed from the command of an elite battalion and forced to ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has given a $36,000 Mercedes to a 5-year-old boy for doing 4,105 consecutive push-ups. Rahim Kurayev - dubbed the "Chechen Schwarzenegger" by local media - showed off ...

Independent media Agentstvo said that Kadyrov “did not appear at public events for at least 18 consecutive days in January”. Footage of the Chechen warlord shown on Sunday at a rehearsal of ...

A US move to impose financial sanctions on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov over alleged human rights abuses has been branded "illegal" by Russia. "We consider these sanctions to be illegal ...

Russian streaming services have censored the 2023 Canadian French-language film The Nature of Love, removing dialogue that describes Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov as a “dictator” and changing another ...

Putin instructed head of Chechnya Kadyrov to render all required assistance to the families of law enforcement officers killed in the attack by militants on Thursday. “We will never forget the ...