Luxury Life and Impunity: How’s Kadyrov Holding onto Power in Chechnya

Kadyrov’s 15-year-old son, Adam, took the position of head of the security department of the head of Chechnya. Earlier, the teenager beat prisoner Nikita Zhuravel in pre-trial detention centre, who was accused of burning the Koran. The head of Chechnya published a video of the beating and wrote that he was proud of his son. This is how Kadyrov is preparing his successor, political scientists say. He has a choice – Kadyrov has ten biological children and two adopted ones. In Chechnya, which lives on subsidies from the federal budget, Kadyrov has built his own vertical of power. _____________________________________ Subscribe to The Gaze: @TheGazeDigitalPlatform UATV Explains page: Subscribe to UATV English: Facebook: Twitter: Telegram: Website : #UATV #UATV_English #UkraineNews #UATV_News #News #Ukraine #Luxury #federalbudget #Kadyrov #Chechnya