Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov (born 5 October 1976) was the President of the Chechen Republic from 2007, succeeding Alu Alkhanov. Kadyrov was the son of Akhmad Kadyrov, the president until his 2004 assassination. The Kadyrov family was Muslim. Although he and his father fought for the independence of Ichkeria, they chose to serve Moscow.
Biography[]
Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov was born on 5 October 1976, the son of Akhmad Kadyrov and his wife Aimani, two Chechen Muslims. Kadyrov was born in Tsentaroy in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union, and he became the personal driver for his father while he was fighting as an anti-Russian mufti during the First Chechen War in the 1990s. His father later was elected president of Chechnya in a rigged election and he was killed in 2004 in a suicide bombing. Ramzan, as his son, was highly-influential. Ramzan became the president of Chechnya in 2007 despite rivalries with warlords Sulim Yamadayev and Said-Magomed Kakiev and previous president Alu Alkhanov. Kadyrov fought against the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) rebels in the Second Chechen War's aftermath conflicts, but he also sent troops of the Vostok Battalion to fight in the distant Donbass War in Ukraine in 2014. He actively participates in the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. He has become exasperated with the results of the Russian pullback at Izium.