Discussions about the future of Chechnya’s leadership have intensified in recent weeks, against the backdrop of increasingly insistent information about the deterioration of Ramzan Kadyrov’s health.
Sources close to the Kremlin and the United Russia party told the investigative publication IStories that the situation is being treated with utmost seriousness in Moscow, and the authorities are “working” on a plan to avoid a power vacuum in the North Caucasian republic.
At the end of December, the Chechen leader was reportedly urgently hospitalized in a Moscow hospital, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe. Subsequently, on January 11, Ukrainian press, citing sources from the Kiev intelligence services, reported that he had suffered kidney failure, and his family had urgently moved to the hospital.
A source close to the Kremlin claims that “as long as Kadyrov is alive, nothing will change”, but admits that in Chechnya there are “complex processes“, kept under strict control, according to IStories.
According to him, locals would have been told that any leak of information will be severely punished, “with the destruction of the entire family, up to the seventh generation”.
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