How The Warlord Who Controls Chechnya Uses Sports To Rule
by Karim Zidan from on (#2WXKF)
When Ramzan Kadyrov stepped into the Akhmat-Arena in Grozny on a brisk December morning in 2014, a sinister smile crept across his bearded face. Dressed in black, the longtime head of the Chechen Republic surveyed the scene within the country's primary soccer stadium, where 20,000 soldiers dressed in fatigues stood in"