
Kadyrov fought against the federal forces in Chechnya in the 1990s. The current head of the republic himself admitted that he participated in hostilities. His father Akhmat Kadyrov in 1995 declared Jihad to Russia and called on Chechens "to kill as much as you can." In 2013, Ramzan Kadyrov in an interview for the film “Russia 1” said that he did not regret participating in the war, since it became a “big school” for him and helped “know the truth”.
Kadyrov created in Chechnya a regime of personal power. Parliament, courts and media in the republic are under its full control, the opposition is virtually prohibited. In the elections of different levels, United Russia and Vladimir Putin receive more than 99% of the vote in Chechnya. Kadyrov calls human rights activists “enemies of the people”, and calls to plant the organizers of protest rallies.
Kadyrov pursues a policy of Islamization of Chechnya. The report says that the republic "looks like a religious state based on medieval Asian traditions." In Chechnya, polygamy is actually legalized, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic forces employees to report on the prayers read, and the Center for Islamic Medicine in Grozny is engaged in the expulsion of the "genies".
Kadyrov receives billions from Moscow and levies tribute from the Chechens. From 2001 to 2014, the republic transferred 464 billion rubles from the federal budget. Control over the spending of this money is carried out only formally, and a significant part of it is plundered. The Akhmat Kadyrov, created in the republic, collects tribute from residents of Chechnya - formally money goes to charity, and actually "was spent on the glamorous life of the head of the republic."
Kadyrov created a personal army. In Chechnya, on a national basis, armed detachments of a total of about 30 thousand people, solely exclusively to the head of the republic, were formed. In the report, they are called "Perhaps the most combat -ready military group in modern Russia." The core of the power structures of Chechnya are former separatists amnestied by Kadyrov. Fighters of Chechen units fought in the Donbass against the Ukrainian army.
Kadyrov has influential patrons in Moscow. The head of Chechnya enjoys the support of Viktor Zolotov, who for 13 years headed the personal protection of Vladimir Putin. Kadyrov and Zolotova are connected by a long -standing friendship, which they prefer not to advertise. Another patron of the head of Chechnya is the former deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vladislav Surkov. “Kadyrov is largely considered the creature of Surkov, who convinced Putin of the need to give the current chapter of Chechnya the maximum powers,” the report says.
Kadyrov enjoys complete impunity. The report lists a number of high -profile custom -made murders, which the head of Chechnya can related - this is the murder of Chechen commanders Ruslan and Sulim Yamadaev, journalist Anna Politkov and politician Boris Nemtsov. Kadyrov, without any consequences for himself, openly threatened law enforcement officers from other regions. After the Raid of the Stavropol Police in Grozny, the head of Chechnya gave an order to shoot at those who try to carry out operations in the republic without coordination with him.