Putin loyalist Kadyrov unleashed on Russian 'traitors'

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Source: BBC

Traitors, jackals and vile liberals are just a few of the choice descriptions of Russia's opposition emerging from Chechnya in recent days, in a war of words that threatens to escalate.

It began on Friday when Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the southern Russian republic, labelled opponents of President Vladimir Putin "enemies of the people" and called for such "traitors" to be prosecuted for subversion, claiming they were working in league with the West. Mr Kadyrov has now re-asserted his claims and gone even further in an online editorial for pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia. Referring to a "half-witted rabble", he offered opposition activists the services of a Chechen psychiatric hospital to treat their "mass psychosis".

"I promise we won't spare the injections. We can do double," he wrote. A boxer-turned-insurgent and now a self-styled "foot soldier" of President Putin, the man known simply as Ramzan is not someone many in Russia dare criticise openly.

Human rights groups have long accused him of presiding over widespread abuses in the Russian republic, and the key suspect in last year's shock shooting of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov beside the Kremlin walls had been deputy commander of one of his elite battalions. He was referred to by Ramzan as a "true patriot".

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1. Gee who ever would have thought

that an old KGB son of a bitch would turn back time to the good old Soviet Union.

[iandhr]

2. I am SHOCKED SHOCKED to find gambling going on here.

[denbot]

4. Your concern is noted.

[Dr. Xavier]

6. Vlad will not be ignored.

We need someone in the WH who realizes that. If we get into WW III, he will push the button.

[pampango]

7. Moscow Times: Kadyrov Set to Play Hardball With Russian Opposition

Konstantin Senchenko, a Krasnoyarsk lawmaker, found himself in the spotlight this month when he was the first to oppose Ramzan Kadyrov in his anti-opposition campaign. Kadyrov called opposition activists "enemies of the people" — a term used during Stalin's era as a criminal charge – and in his speech to local media representatives said they should be persecuted for their “subversive activity.”

Senchenko called Kadyrov "a disgrace to Russia," in a Facebook post. Several days later a video of Senchenko apologizing for his words appeared on Kadyrov's Instagram with a caption "I accept [the apology]." According to State Duma opposition deputy Dmitry Gudkov, the video was filmed by representatives of the Krasnoyarsk Chechen diaspora.

Numerous civil rights activists, including human rights ombudswoman Ella Pamfilova and members of the Presidential Human Rights Council, condemned Kadyrov's statements as harmful and dangerous and called for the Prosecutor General's office to look into them.

Varvara Pakhomenko, an analyst with the International Crisis Group who has been studying Chechnya for years, believes the reason is that locals have begun expressing resentment towards regional officialdom, and Kadyrov wants to prevent them from protesting. “The Chechens were patient for a long time, because the war was over and they became able to earn a living again. Now the pressure is the same, but there is less money, hence they no longer think it's worth to live in fear,” she said.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kadyrov-set-to-play-hardball-with-russian-opposition/556436.html

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8. He does have a point.

Criticism of Russia and/or Putin isn't something that should be allowed, because Russia and Putin never do anything that is worthy of criticism. Anyone who says anything negative is clearly a crazy or CIA stooge who needs to be incarcerated.