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Revisiting Kadyrov's Grozny
By: Masha Medvedkov
Posted: Aug 27 09
Witnessed: 974 times
Regions: Russia
Issues: Corruption, Freedom of opinion & expression
Tags: caucasus, chechnya, grozny, murder
Big Brother-like pictures of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's stocky 32-year-old leader, hang everywhere in Grozny, along with signs of praise and thanks. But as RFE/RL correspondent Gregory Feifer discovered during an August 2009 visit to interview Ramzan Kadyrov, there are signs of a deep fear beneath the veneer of devoted optimism.
Original source: rferlonline on Youtube.
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