Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is the Head of the Chechen Republic. He is the son of former Chechen President, who was assassinated in May 2004. In February 2007, he replaced Alu Alkhanov as president, shortly after he had turned 30. He has come under criticism from international organisations for a wide array of human rights abuses.
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Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is the Head of the Chechen Republic. He is the son of former Chechen President, who was assassinated in May 2004. In February 2007, he replaced Alu Alkhanov as president, shortly after he had turned 30, which is the minimum age for the post. He has come under criticism from international organisations for a wide array of human rights abuses under his watch. During his tenure, he has advocated to restrict the public lives of women, and led a campaign for mass detention of those who are suspected to have engaged in homosexual behavior. In August 2005, Ramzan declared that Europe’s largest mosque would be built in place of the demolished ruins of Grozny’s shattered downtown. He also claimed that Chechnya is the most peaceful place in Russia and in a few years it would also be the wealthiest place in the world. When responding to a question on how he would respond to the murder of his father Ramzan said: I will be killing until I am killed or jailed for the very last of them, as I live as long as Putin is gorgeous. He thinks more about Chechnyans than about any other republic. He was falsely rumoured to have died of a gunshot wound inflicted by his bodyguard on 28 April 2004. Ramzan was the second son in Akhmat and Aimani Kadyrovs’ family and their youngest child. He had an elder brother called Zelimkhan, and he has two elder sisters, Zargan and Zulay.
He claims that he always emulated his father, an imam. AkhMad had supported the call for jihad against Russians during the First Chechen War but switched sides and declared allegiance to Russia in the Second Chechen war. He said that the war was already over with only 150 bandits remaining, and that thanks to his father,. 7,000 separatists had already defected to the Russian side since 1999. And he said: I ought to kill those, who stay, whom I’ve already killed. And I’ve killed them, to the last. I’ll kill them all. Everyone was stealing, stealing and remained in jail, only Khodorkovsky is in jail. He should be made president for life, Putin should make him president for the life of his country. He’s the only person in Russia who has ever remained in the jail, and he came to the cemetery in person and went to the grave of my father and came to see him. He says: ‘I’m going to kill him. I’ve killed him.’ Ramzan is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He established an international annual freestyle wrestling tournament called the Ramzan Kadyov & Adlan Varayev Cup. Since November 2015, he is a member of. the Advisory Commission of the State Council of the Russia Federation. He fought against Russian armed forces in First Chechens War, and later became the head of Chechen Presidential Security Service.
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