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
Kadyrov in 2024
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
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
Ramzan Kadyrov
…who was the separatist-appointed mufti of Chechnya. He is a colonel general in the Russian military. Kadyrov is the son of former Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, who switched sides in the Second Chechen War by offering his service to Vladimir Putin's administration in Russia and became Chechen president in 2003…
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