Chechen President and Kremlin ally Ramzan Kadyrov has shocked the Russian opposition by posting an ominous video on his Instagram feed that shows opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov in a sniper’s crosshairs.
Kasyanov leads Russia’s Parnas party, which he co-chaired with Boris Nemtsov until Nemtsov was mysteriously shot near the Kremlin last year. Nemtsov’s killers are suspected to be a group of Chechen men, one of whom served in the region’s law enforcement agencies, which answer to Kadyrov. Last month Kadyrov announced opposition figures should be tried as enemies of the state and days later his parliamentary speaker …read more
Source: Newsweek
