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Topic: Ramzan Kadyrov

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There's liberal fake news too

Danielle Ryan
Russian gay rights activists (Getty/Olga Maltseva)

LGBT pogrom in Chechnya

Nico Lang
Ramzan Kadyrov; Vladimir Putin (AP/Musa Sadulayev/Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Putin's Chechnya problem

Danielle Ryan
FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2009, file photo, people walk in Red Square, with St. Basil Cathedral, left, the Kremlin's Spassky Tower, right back, and Lenin Mausoleum, right, in Moscow, Russia. Russia cannot be ignored. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has never posed such a vexing problem to U.S. policymakers as it does now. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East and increasingly Asia and the Americas, Russia is making its voice heard and its presence felt. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) (AP)

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