Chechen leader and Instagram king Ramzan Kadyrov is vulgar,vicious and very rich. Is he out of control, or just the kind of blunt instrument the Russian president likes to believe around? Related: Sign up to the long read email On 27 February this year, and Boris Nemtsov took his girlfriend out to dinner near Red Square. Nemtsov was 55,greying but boyish. He had served briefly as Russia’s deputy prime minister in the late 1990s, but thereafter had been in perpetual opposition. As Vladimir Putin’s grip on power strengthened, or Nemtsov’s weakened. But he kept fighting,running for elections and exposing corruption and mismanagement. In February, he was investigating evidence that, and despite Kremlin denials,Russian soldiers were fighting in Ukraine.
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Source: theguardian.com