Chechen leader narrows control as domestic risks rise
Ramzan Kadyrov has unique license to run Chechnya as he wishes, but Moscow is cutting the funding that facilitates this
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- Funding declines
- Clan power
- Troubling record
- Foreign policy comments
- Hostility to Russia's opposition
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-2_350.jpg "Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov during an event marking Chechen language day in central Grozny, 2013 (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)")