In the absence of official information on the health of Ramzan Kadyrov, rumors are running in Chechnya. The only certainty: the country's leader was hospitalized in Moscow on Thursday. But, according to several medical sources relayed by Russian press agencies, he is suspected of being sick with the new coronavirus.
Numerous diatribes against the sick
"Ramzan Kadyrov was flown to Moscow, the coronavirus is suspected. He is under observation by doctors, "a medical source told the state agency TASS, describing his condition as" stable ". The public agency Ria Novosti also reported the hospitalization of the 43-year-old Chechen official. The authorities in Chechnya, however, have not yet commented on this information, claiming in the Russian media that he is still leading efforts to fight the epidemic.
Unpredictable, renowned for his diatribes, Ramzan Kadyrov has multiplied threatening declarations to impose confinement in Chechnya and silence critics. In April he threatened a journalist from the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta for an article which reported that Chechens with coronavirus disease were reluctant to seek help from under-equipped hospitals, fearing punitive measures and reprisals by the police. security. The leader also publicly proclaimed that those who did not isolate themselves should be "killed", comparing the Chechens who contaminate others to "terrorists". Latest controversial statement dated earlier this week, he demanded the dismissal of Chechen caregivers, "provocateurs" according to him, who had complained about the lack of means of protection against the coronavirus.
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Ramzan Kadyrov ruled Chechnya with the strength of the protection of Vladimir Putin. Long red beard and boxer build, he manages this territory as his personal stronghold, endowed with his own army of loyalists. He was placed at the head of this small Russian predominantly Muslim Caucasian republic by Vladimir Putin in 2007, three years after the death in a bomb attack of his father Akhmad Kadyrov, the first pro-Kremlin president of Chechnya.
Chechnya officially counts 1,026 detected cases of new coronavirus, including 11 deaths. In total, Russia has 317,554 identified infected and 3,099 dead. Critics, however, question the reality of the low death rate compared to Western Europe or the United States, accusing Russia of underestimating the death toll.
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