Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, in critical condition

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Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, in critical condition: Ukrainian Intelligence reports
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Recently, he has deteriorated significantly, looks very swollen, and often cannot open his eyes in videos. It is believed that Kadyrov has serious kidney problems, according to Ahmed Zakayev, the former deputy prime minister of Ichkeria, who is in exile.

Sounds like someone has been taking tea with Putin.

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Good

Normally I don't like to piss on someone's grave, but literally everybody will be better off with certain people gone from this world.

He's one of them.

I'm skeptical. I keep reading this exact headline about Putin, Kadyrov and Lukashenko. I'm not saying it's not true this time, but there have been a lot of false reports in regards to this.

I think the Luka news about hospitalization were true, though. I might be wrong, but IIRC, it was verified by several sources. Presumably he was in the hospital for "normal" reasons, and got better.

Yeah, but the way it was reported sounded like he was about to die.

That's just media doing what they always do: overhype

Kadyrov brought a doctor from the United Arab Emirates to Chechnya because he does not trust Moscow doctors.

Wait what i thought he and Pootin were friends?

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There's a very short list of people where i was genuinely happy to hear they died. It's reserved for people like Saddam or Gaddafi. This guy is very much a candidate.

Given that his grip on Chechnya is a personal one, and unlikely to smoothly transfer to a successor, and maintained by fear, it may do well for Putin to keep him on life support indefinitely, with functionaries relaying “his” orders to followers. Sort of like Warhammer 40K, or perhaps Weekend At Bernie’s.

And you think someone’s not gonna try to opportunistically off Kadyrov if he’s kept in that state indefinitely?

I see Chechnya collapsing into a quagmire again. There’s still a lot of people living there who aren’t fans of the Russian occupation, to put it mildly.

Sort of like Warhammer 40K, or perhaps Weekend At Bernie’s.

I fucking love that this sentence now exists.

Wasn't he a Russian puppet?

A Moscow puppet who did a good job at keeping the Chechens from rebelling again. Without him it will be interesting to see if they rise up with the Russian army preoccupied as it is

  • shocked pikachu face * Does Putin think he was part of the coup?

Talks like he just finished a professional eating competition and lost.