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Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (born 1951)

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Akhmad Kadyrov

Chechen militant; leader of Chechnya from 2000 to 2004

Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was a Chechen politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At the outbreak of the Second Chechen War he switched sides, offering his service…
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Head of the Chechen Republic

Highest-ranking official in Chechnya, Russia

The head of the Chechen Republic or head of Chechnya is the highest office within the political system of the Chechen Republic, as head of state and head of government of Chechnya. The office was instituted in 2003 during the course of the Second Chechen War, when the Russian…
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