Part 7 of Foreign Policy’s profile of Dagestan

This particular segment discusses corruption in the Caucasus and includes a harrowing tale of how a sexual assault case was handled by the justice system.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/23/dangerous_graft

This guy has shown up quite a bit here since 2011:

Two years ago, Medvedev asked regional leaders to detail their income and belongings. Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, who owns a gold-plated pistol, several racehorses, and a collection of expensive sports cars (he acquired a Ferrari Testarossa in 2006), declared two assets: a 36-square-meter apartment and a Lada Zhiguli, the Soviet-era workhorse sedan.

And the quote at the bottom of the article, “the fish rots from the head”
in Russian is
рыба гниет с головы

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2 Responses to Part 7 of Foreign Policy’s profile of Dagestan

  1. ohcornelius says:

    I hope to visit the Caucasus soon

  2. Very impressive stuff. Thanks for sharing

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