Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was a Russian 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
Kadyrov in 2002
Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin at a meeting in 2002
Kadyrov on a 2026 stamp of Russia
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Ramzan Kadyrov at the grave of Akhmat Kadyrov in June 2012
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov is a Russian politician who is currently serving as the head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly affiliated with the Chechen independence movement through his father, w
Akhmad Kadyrov
…from July 2000. On 9 May 2004, he was assassinated by Chechen Islamists in Grozny, by a bomb blast during a Victory Day memorial parade. His son, Ramzan Kadyrov, who led his father's militia, became his successor in March 2007 as the President of the Chechen Republic. Akhmat Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was born…
Akhmad Kadyrov, father of Ramzan and formerly a leading separatist mufti, had switched sides in 2000
Left to right: President Alu Alkhanov, Russian president Putin, and Kadyrov at the Chechen Parliament's first session, December 2005.
Kadyrov (right) with Russian president Vladimir Putin in February 2008