Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) met with Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Dec. 4, 2014. Reuters
Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast: The Kremlin’s Favorite Muslim, Kadyrov, Goes Too Far
Putin’s most ambitious and ruthless supporter in Chechnya appears to be spinning out of control, with deadly consequences.
MOSCOW — Earlier this month, the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, informed his more than one million followers on social networks that he had become “the happiest man in this land.” Something had come to pass that he never could have dreamed of, he said. He had had a transfusion, he said, from a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, so now he has the Prophet’s blood flowing through his veins.
In a not-for-attribution conversation last week, a Russian government official told The Daily Beast that the blood transfusion was seen in Moscow, as “something totally insane and wild,” but that it hardly the worst of the bad news about Kadyrov.
The Russian opposition has taken to accusing the Chechen leader, publicly, of murder.
WNU Editor: I have never been a fan of this lunatic .... and Anna Nemtsova nails it in her post. Unfortunately .... he is one of many in Chechnya .... and he is not the worse.