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Chechen fighter near the Presidential Palace in Grozny, January 1995 / Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Blood feuds, forced apologies, abductions, torture and more—these are among the tactics used by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and those around him to suppress dissent against his policies. Since 2014, OVD-Info has been monitoring the political persecution of people both in the region and beyond its borders.