Word: ramzan
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...passenger jet and a DHL cargo plane collided over Germany in July 2002, killing 71. The Russian crew heeded instructions from an air traffic controller that took them into the cargo plane's path. The controller was murdered in February in a suspected revenge attack. Not a Candidate CHECHNYA Ramzan Kadyrov, 27, the son of assassinated leader Akhmad Kadyrov, said he would not run in the Aug. 29 presidential election. His statement followed Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision not to respond publicly to a Chechen appeal to reduce the minimum age requirement in the constitution...
...completely ridiculous," says Anne Nivat, author of Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya. "It's been going on for 10 years and the death of Kadyrov won't change a thing." Perhaps not, if Kadyrov's 27-year-old son, Ramzan, takes over where his father left off. Ramzan, a boxing enthusiast, is head of the kadyrovtsi, which stands accused of a series of human-rights violations against civilians and political opponents. "The [kadyrovtsi] is notorious for kidnappings, brutality and tortures, and is universally hated by the population," a top Russian...