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DUSUR Yacht – Stunning 52 Meter Superyacht

The DUSUR yacht is a custom superyacht built by Turkish shipyard Bilgin Yachts in 2015.

First launched as a 49.9-meter yacht, she underwent a transformation back in 2017 to expand her beach club area by 1.9 meters. 

In 2014, DUSUR was born as a Bilgin 164 vessel under the name of “Alfulk”. 

DUSUR Yacht Interior

The DUSUR yacht interior design was penned by the English firm H2 Yacht Design.

The British design house decided to decorate the vessel with a “cappuccino” color palette with details in black cherry and chocolate brown that can be seen across her three decks.

Her timeless and modern style helps create the most elegant and comfortable space. Some of her furnishings were selected by DUSUR’s owner at the Samuel Health Personal Mega Yacht Design division. 

She benefits from a lot of natural light thanks to her abundant open areas, ideal for sunbathing and socializing while cruising. 

DUSUR was designed to have five spacious staterooms to accommodate 12 guests. The master suite is located on the main deck and has its own private balcony and jacuzzi. 

The rest of the cabins, including two VIP suites, can be found on the lower deck. The vessel also carries 13 crew members to ensure a great experience. 

For more comfort and entertainment on board, she features a movie theatre, underwater lights, outdoor bar, swimming platform, beach club, gym, WIFI, and air-conditioning. 

One of her most notable features is her curved 55’ TV in the main saloon, an Apple device-controlled system, and a SAVANT automatic system created exclusively for this superyacht. 

She is well-equipped with toys and tenders, including boats and jet skis. 

DUSUR Yacht Exterior

The DUSUR yacht has an exterior design by H2 Yacht Design and naval architecture by Bilgin Yachts. 

This elegant white vessel has a steel hull, aluminum superstructure, and Teak deck as well as at-anchor stabilizers.  

During the extension in 2017, DUSUR added a hydraulic deploying transformer to the swimming platform. 

DUSUR Yacht Specifications

The DUSUR yacht has a beam of 9.5m, a draft of 3.0m, and a volume of 795 GT. She is powered by two Caterpillar engines (1,650HP). 

She has a cruising speed of 13.0 knots and can reach a maximum speed of 16.0 knots. 

This superyacht can carry up to 108,000 liters of fuel and 31,000 liters of fresh water on board. 

She is the second largest yacht built by Bilgin Yachts and is also one of the biggest yachts in the world , ranked number 816th. 

DUSUR was built to comply RINA, LY2 and MCA classifications and is in the top 10% by LOA in the world. She sails under the Cayman Islands flag.

She is currently not available for charter or listed for sale, but apparently, she was designed for a Saudi businessman, whose identity remains unknown.

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dusur - 51.8m turkish bilgin superyacht

This 51.8m yacht comes from the Turkish builders Bilgin Yachts. She was constructed in 2015 for a Saudi businessman and is the 2nd-largest built by Bilgin and 816th-largest yacht in the world. 

When she was first launched she was actually 49.9m, before later having an expansion of her transom (see below). 

She was previously named Alfulk and was last sold in 2012, before her transformation. 

Her timeless exterior and interior design is the work of London based H2 Yacht Design and provides an elegant and stylish atmosphere together with complete comfort for all passengers onboard. H2 used a “cappuccino” colour scheme for the interior, creating a classic modern feel.  

The Bilgin 164 model has a beam of 9.5m and sits in the water with a 3m draft. With an aluminium superstructure and steel mono hull she has a 795 gross tonnage. She has a maximum speed of 16 knots powered by her twin Caterpillar 3512C diesel engines (1650 hp) and a fuel tank that holds 108,000 litres. She can cruise comfortably at 13 knots but when cruising at 9 knots she can reach a range of 5250 nautical miles. 

Dusur has 5 sumptuous cabins which include an owner’s suite, 2x VIP suites, plus 2x twin cabins with pullman beds, allowing a total of 12 guests to stay onboard. The owner’s suite and office are situated on the main deck and boasts its own private balcony. There are also 5 ensuite crew cabins which sleep 13 experienced crew members. 

She flaunts 3 generous teak deck spaces with an outdoor bar and a jacuzzi. In 2017 she underwent a refit which included an extension of the transom by nearly 2m, plus hydraulic deploying platforms creating a larger, magnificent beach club area and swim platform. Her last refit was in 2022.

The  main deck’s living space provides spectacular views through her 3m sliding doors on both sides, creating a feeling that you are at one with your surroundings.  

The upper deck features not only the captain's cabin and wheelhouse, but also a Turkish Hamam, a game room and gym. Other notable features onboard include her movie theatre, a backlit translucent stone indoor bar and backlit agate flooring. Plus, she has an array of water toys, including jet skis and tenders. 

 Dusur is currently active and was recently seen in Marmaris, Turkey, as pictured/videoed here. 

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DUSUR (BILGIN 164)

With the launch of 51.8 custom motoryacht Dusur in 2015, Bilgin Yacht was no longer a boutique company, but an internationally recognized superyacht builder from Turkey. 

Created on the drawing board of H2 Yacht Design, this displacement motoryacht has a bigger interior capacity than any of her kind.

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Motor Yacht

Dusur is a custom motor yacht launched in 2015 by Bilgin Yachts, in Turkey.

Dusur measures 50.00 metres in length, with a max draft of 3.00 feet and a beam of 10.00 feet.

Dusur has a steel hull with an aluminium superstructure.

H2 Yacht Design was established in 1994 specialising in the interior design and exterior styling of superyachts. The director Jonny Horsfield and senior consultants have between them over 30 years experience in the yacht industry during which time they have been involved in over 100 superyacht projects.

Dusur also features naval architecture by Bilgin Yachts.

Performance and Capabilities

Dusur has a top speed of 16.00 knots and a cruising speed of 14.00 knots. She is powered by a twin screw propulsion system.

Accommodation

Dusur accommodates up to 12 guests in 6 cabins.

Other Specifications

Dusur has a hull NB of 1214.

Dusur is a RINA class yacht.

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Bilgin superyacht Dusur lengthened during winter refit

Turkish yard Bilgin has relaunched the tri-deck motor yacht Dusur , which has been lengthened during her winter refit.

First launched in 2015 as a 49.9 metre yacht, her transom has now been extended by 1.9 metres to expand the superyacht beach club area , bringing her LOA up to a total of 51.8 metres.

Other improvements carried out at the West Istanbul facility over the winter included regular maintenance, final warranty work and the addition of a new 7.5 metre passerelle.

Dusur was developed in collaboration with London-based studio H2 Yacht Design , who created her exterior lines. Accommodation is for 12 guests in six staterooms, including an owner’s cabin , a VIP suite, two doubles and two twins, while the crew quarters allows for a maximum staff of 12 people.

Her vital statistics include a beam of 9.5 metres and a maximum draught of three metres, while the interior volume on board totals 795GT.

Power comes from a pair of 1,650hp Caterpillar 3512C engines for a top speed of 16 knots. When trimmed back to her cruising speed of 12 knots, Dusur can cover long distances without mooring up, thanks to her 108,000 litre fuel capacity.

Other projects currently under development at the Turkish yard include the first two yachts into the 80 metre Bilgin 263 series , which are due to hit the water in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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Motor yacht Dusur has undergone a refit at Bilgin shipyard in Turkey . Dusur has been lengthened and is now measuring 51.8 metres. She was originally launched in 2015 as a 49.9-metre motor yacht built according to the design by H2 Yacht Design Studio . The newly-extended superyacht beach club area makes her a truly luxurious superyacht over 50 metres .

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Dusur is a beautiful motor yacht from the Bilgin 164 series , which was built for a Saudi businessman. The exterior spaces onboard Dusur are wide-open, offering fantastic entertainment and an alfresco dining experience.

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A large movie theatre, hammam and gymnasium are among the many luxury amenities.

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Her interior capacity is larger than most yachts of the same size. She can sleep 12 guests in 6 opulent cabins. The owners master suite is located on the main deck, while four guests cabins are found on the lower deck. There is also plenty of room to accommodate a crew of 6.

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Powered by two CAT 3512C engines, Dusur can reach a top speed of 16 knots. Long cruising distances are possible at the speed of 12 knots, thanks to her 108,000-litre fuel capacity.

Dusur is ready for the Mediterranean summer season, the best time to charter luxury superyachts. Contact our brokers now for more information.

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The 50 m  Custom motor yacht Dusur was built in 2015 by Bilgin Yachts.  Her  interior layout sleeps up to 12 guests in 5 staterooms, including a master suite, 2 VIP staterooms, 2 twin cabins and 2 pullman beds. She is also capable of carrying up to 13 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. Timeless styling, beautiful furnishings and sumptuous seating feature throughout her living areas to create an elegant and comfortable atmosphere. 

Her generous deck areas play host to a wide range of amenities including an outdoor bar, Jacuzzi and ample space for sunlounging and relaxing. Dusur's impressive leisure and entertainment facilities make her the ideal charter yacht for socialising and entertaining with family and friends.

She is built with steel hull and aluminium superstructure. This custom displacement yacht also features ‘at anchor stabilisers’ which work at zero speed, increasing onboard comfort at anchor and on rough waters. Dusur is capable of 15 knots flat out, with a cruising speed of 12 knots from her 110,000- fuel tanks.

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Dusur is a displacement superyacht of nearly 50-meters with a beam of 9.50-meters and a full load draft of 3.32-meters. Top speed is 15-knots with a cruising speed of approximately 12-knots. Her power package comes via two CAT 3512C marine diesels and they draw from a tankage capacity of 110,000 LT. Special features include a fold down balcony to the master suite for the owner to enjoy while at anchor. There is also a substantial beach club aft on the lower deck. On the sundeck there is seating with a bar and large hidden TV that pops down from the ceiling of the radar arch. The transom also has a rather eye-catching wood-like finish to it perhaps paying homage to the owner's birth-place. For more information: Bilgin Yachts İçkumsal Mevki, Bizim Sok. No:45, Küçükçekmece Merkezİstanbul Avrupa, Turkey www.**************** *** ​

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Dusur (Bilgin 164)

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Dusur is a fully custom designed 52m mega yacht with a steel hull and an aluminum superstructure. She was created by H2 Yacht Design Studio based on the owner’s specifications, needs and wishes. She is modern in every way; her smooth lined exterior gives the vessel an elegant and interesting look.

The lower deck is designed with 2 VIP and 2 guest cabins in the mid-section and 5 en-suite crew cabins for 10 crew with a fully equipped galley and crew mess in the forward section. The aft section houses a huge beach club.

The main-deck is designed with a very large saloon, a bar, game room and dining room for 10 people in the mid-section. Forward on the main deck is a large foyer, professional equipped galley with large cold room and owner’s cabin including a separate Owners retreat/office. Tenders and toys are placed on main deck with a separate sitting arrangement in the bow.

The upper deck houses a second saloon, a cinema, game room and a gym with access to a Turkish hamam, captain’s cabin and an office mess behind the wheelhouse at forward section. The aft space on the upper deck is an open area suitable for up to 8 people to have diner/lunch. The sun deck has a flexible design with different usage opportunities with a bar/pantry and a pool with a skylight to the upper deck foyer.

She was delivered in June 2015.

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Yuri Kozyrev: Photographing 15 Years of Chechnya’s Troubled History

Yuri Kozyrev recalls the winter of 1999 as one of the most trying and tragic of his career as a photographer. It was the eve of Vladimir Putin’s ascent to the Russian presidency, and the height of the Russian bombardment of Chechnya, when entire towns in that breakaway republic were, as the Russians often put it, “made level with the earth.”

Kozyrev, a native of Moscow, documented both of Chechnya’s wars against Russia in the 1990s. The first one, fought between 1994 and 1996, had resulted in a humiliating defeat for Russia. But the carnage was far worse when the conflict resumed under Putin in 1999.

Arriving in Chechnya that fall, Kozyrev’s plan was to find and photograph two men amid the chaos of the Russian invasion. The first was Major General Alexander Ivanovich Otrakovsky, who was then commanding the Russian marines from his encampment near the town of Tsentaroy, a key stronghold of the Chechen separatists. The second was the general’s son, Captain Ivan Otrakovsky, who was serving on the front lines not far from the base, in one of the most hotly contested patches of territory.

The aim, says Kozyrev, was to document the two generations of Russian servicemen involved in the conflict – the elder brought up at the height of Soviet power during the Cold War, the younger in the dying years of Moscow’s empire. After weeks of negotiations, he finally managed to embed with the marines and to track down their general, a stocky man with a sly smile and a distinctive mole on the right side of his nose.

At the time, his command center was in an abandoned storage facility for crude oil, Chechnya’s most plentiful and lucrative commodity – and one of the main reasons why Russia refused to allow the region to secede. “It was incredible,” Kozyrev says of his first encounter with the general. “Here were these commanders living inside of a giant oil bunker.”

He recalls Otrakovsky as a kindly intellectual, nothing like the Russian cutthroats who would later be accused of committing atrocities in Chechnya. The general, whose troops referred to him affectionately as Dyed, or Grandpa, was willing to help Kozyrev. But he explained that reaching his son on the front lines would be extremely dangerous, as it would require passing through enemy territory around Tsentaroy.

That town was well known in Chechnya as the home of the Kadyrov clan, an extended family of rebel fighters whose patriarch, the mufti Akhmad Kadyrov, had served as the religious leader of the rebellion. During the first war for independence in the 1990s, he had even declared a state of jihad against Russia, instructing all Chechens that it was their duty to “kill as many Russians as they could.”

At the start of the second war, however, Kadyrov switched sides and agreed to help the Russians, causing a fateful split within the rebel ranks. While the more recalcitrant insurgents had turned to the tactics of terrorism and the ideology of radical Islam, Akhmad Kadyrov abandoned his previous calls for jihad and agreed to serve as Putin’s proxy leader in Chechnya in the fall of 1999.

That did not stop the fighting around his home village, as various insurgent groups continued attacking Russian and loyalist forces positioned around Tsentaroy. So none of the Russian marines were especially keen to move around the area unless they had good reason, and it took Kozyrev days to convince the Russian commander to allow him to reach the front lines. Eventually Gen. Otrakovsky consented, providing the photographer with an escort of about ten marines and two armored personnel carriers.

They set out on what Kozyrev recalls as an especially cold day, rumbling through fog or mist that made it difficult to see the surrounding terrain. As the general had feared, the group was ambushed. From multiple directions, Chechen fighters opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, forcing the convoy to retreat from Tsentaroy. One of the marines was killed in the firefight; three others were wounded.

When they returned to the base, it was clear from the glares of the troops that they all blamed Kozyrev for the fiasco, he says, and Gen. Otrakovsky advised the photographer to leave in the morning. “He said it may not be safe anymore for me to stay among his men,” Kozyrev remembers.

The trauma of that incident has lingered, weighing heaviest during his later assignments in Chechnya. Today, the region is ruled by Kadyrov’s son Ramzan, who took over after his father was assassinated in 2004. His native village of Tsentaroy has since enjoyed a generous stream of aid for redevelopment, including the construction of a beautiful mosque dedicated to Ramzan Kadyrov’s mother.

The rest of Chechnya has been rebuilt with similar largesse from Moscow, which has poured billions of dollars into the reconstruction of the cities and towns it had destroyed. When Kozyrev returned to Chechnya in 2009, nearly a decade after the end of the war, he says, “It blew my mind. The place is unrecognizable.”

The Chechen capital of Grozny – which the U.N. deemed “the most destroyed city on earth” in 2003 – is now a gleaming metropolis. Its center is packed with skyscrapers, sporting arenas, shopping plazas and an enormous mosque, the largest in Europe, dedicated to the memory of Akhmad Kadyrov.

His clan now rules the region unchallenged, having sidelined all of its local rivals with Moscow’s unflinching support. Throughout the region, portraits of Putin and the Kadyrovs are now plastered on the facades of buildings and along highways. Among the more ostentatious is a gigantic picture of Akhmad Kadyrov astride a rearing stallion, which adorns a building at the end of the city’s main drag – the Avenue of V.V. Putin.

The strangeness of the transformation, and of its architects, still seems astounding to Kozyrev, who last went on assignment to Chechnya for TIME in April. The trips always remind him of Gen. Otrakovsy, who died of a heart attack while commanding the marines in southern Chechnya, about four months after the young photographer had shown up to ask for his help. The general’s son, whom Kozyrev never did manage to find, went on to become a right-wing politician in Russia with close ties to Orthodox Christian conservative groups.

These were the men who executed the war that helped bring Putin to power. “But it was all the decision of one man to bring Chechnya back under control in ‘99. Putin decided to do that,” Kozyrev says. “And it’s incredible, when you think about it. But the men of Tsentaroy turned out to be his most loyal helpers.”

Yuri Kozyrev is a photojournalist and a TIME contract photographer. He is represented by Noor . In 2000, he received two World Press Photo photojournalism awards for his coverage of the second Chechen war in 1999.

Alice Gabriner , who edited this photo essay, is TIME’s International Photo Editor.

Simon Shuster is a reporter for TIME based in Moscow.

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Chechnya, Russia and 20 years of conflict

How the tiny region shaped post-Soviet Russia on the 20th anniversary of the start of first Chechnya war.

Moscow, Russia – Twenty years ago on Thursday, Moscow started what it thought would be a “blitzkrieg” against secular separatists in Chechnya, a tiny, oil-rich province in Russia’s North Caucasus region that had declared its independence.

But the first Chechen war became Russia’s Vietnam; the second war was declared a victory only in 2009. The two conflicts have reshaped Russia, Chechnya, their rulers – and those who oppose them.

In 1994, s hortly after Moscow invaded Chechnya in an effort to restore its territorial integrity, Akhmad Kadyrov, a bearded, barrel-chested Muslim scholar turned guerrilla commander, declared jihad on all Russians and said each Chechen should kill at least 150 of them.

That was the proportion of the populations on each side of the conflict: some 150 million Russians and less than a million Chechens in a small, landlocked province, which the separatists wanted to carve out of Russia.

Western media and politicians dubbed the Chechens “freedom fighters” – an army of Davids fighting the Russian Goliath.

Moscow was lambasted internationally for disproportionate use of force and rolling back on the democratic freedoms that former leader Boris Yeltsin was so eager to introduce after the 1991 Soviet Union collapse.

Tens of thousands died amid atrocities committed by both sides – and many more were displaced before 1996, when the Russians retreated, leaving Chechnya essentially independent.

Retreating was a humiliation for Russia’s military machine that less than a decade earlier had presented a seemingly formidable threat to the entire Western world.

Chechen against Chechen

Independence did not quite work out for the Chechens.  The separatist government based in the ruined capital, Grozny, lost control over the rest of Chechnya.

Feuding field commanders and  foreign jihadists, such as the Saudi known as Emir al-Khattab,  ruled small districts with their own little armies. Kidnappings for ransom – along with primitive extraction of oil – were their main sources of income.

Many of the foreigners adhered to a puritanical Muslim ideology  known as Wahhabism  that ran counter to Chechnya’s Sufi traditions.

Akhmad Kadyrov, who was appointed as top Mufti of Chechnya, came into opposition with the puritans and their Chechen supporters, because he saw their extremist views as a threat to the separatist movement. In 1998, Kadyrov openly renounced the Wahhabis – and barely survived the first of many assassination attempts.

Kadyrov soon switched alliances, siding with the people upon whom he had once declared war – the Russians.

A virtually unknown ex-KBG officer, Vladimir Putin  became Russia’s new prime minister i n August 1999 and w ithin weeks led a military operation against the Chechen fighters.   

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When a series of explosions in apartment buildings in Moscow and two Russian towns killed more than 300 Russians, Moscow blamed Chechen rebels and embarked on an epic “anti-terrorist operation,” which became the second Chechen war.

Putin’s approval ratings skyrocketed, paving the way for his first presidency.  A ided by Kadyrov and other Chechen clans who had pledged allegiance to the Kremlin, t he Russian military  quickly returned most of Chechnya to Moscow’s control. In 2003, Kadyrov was elected Chechen president.

Russian targets

Cornered in Chechnya, the separatists took the war to Russia.

Attacks throughout the country became a grim reality of the new war and involved explosions in cities and towns, on planes and public transport.

At least two dozen attacks were carried out by female suicide bombers. Dubbed “black widows”, they became a sinister image imprinted on Russia’s collective psyche.

One such attack killed Akhmad Kadyrov in May 2004. His son, 27-year-old Ramzan Kadyrov, was too young to run for president at the time, but as head of his father’s security service, he quickly became Chechnya’s de facto ruler. I n 2007, soon after he turned 30, the younger Kadyrov  was elected president.

Four months after his father’s assassination, Chechen separatists seized a public school in the town of Beslan taking more than 1,000 hostages, mostly children. Almost 200 kids died when Russian forces stormed the school. The incident changed the world’s attitude towards the Chechen cause – “freedom fighters” became “Islamic insurgents” in the Western media.

Meanwhile, the media in Russia came under attack.

“The saying was that it was journalists who won the first Chechen war,” says Tatyana Lokshina, deputy director of the Moscow branch of Human Rights Watch, an international rights watchdog.

Moscow used unfavourable media coverage of the war as an excuse to curtail press freedoms. The Kremlin took over all national television networks and most major newspapers.

“For years, Vladimir Putin saw the pacification of Chechnya as his main achievement,” says Stanislav Belkovsky, a Moscow-based political analyst . “In that respect, Putin has a colossal psychological dependency on Chechnya and Ramzan Kadyrov who ensured the pacification.”

The Beslan crisis also served as a pretext to tighten political screws in Russia. Putin eliminated regional gubernatorial elections, complicated participation of opposition parties in elections, and limited democratic freedoms.

The public hailed Putin for bringing stability and pacifying Chechnya.  The victory revived Moscow’s imperial ambitions – at least in the area of the former Soviet Union.

Shaping today’s Russia

Moscow won the brief 2008 Russo-Georgian war over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia . In March 2014, Russia took over Crimea from Ukraine and helped unleash a civil war between pro-Russian separatists and the central Ukrainian government just a month later.

Both Chechen wars became systemic factors in shaping today's Russia. Instead of peaceful development inside the country we moved to the priority of external expansion by  - Stanislav Belkovsky, political analyst

“Both Chechen wars became systemic factors in shaping today’s Russia,” says Belkovsky . “Instead of peaceful development inside the country, we moved to the priority of external expansion.”

Putin declared “the counter-terrorism operation” in Chechnya over in 2009 – just when things in North Caucasus took a turn for the worse.

Dagestan and several other provinces in the region became the new hotbeds of radical Islamism. A new generation of Moscow’s foes did not want secular separation – instead they are fighting to establish a “Caucasus Emirate” that includes adjacent Russian regions with sizable Muslim populations.

At least 529 people were killed and 457 wounded in North Caucasus in 2013, according to Kavkazsky Uzel, a Russian web portal that monitors the situation in the region. The confrontation has turned into “Europe’s most active armed conflict ” , according to the International Crisis Group, a conflict-monitoring organisation.

The insurgency became self-sustaining because of a vicious circle perpetuated by corruption and brutality.

Federal forces and police trigger the violence with extra-judicial killings, arrests, kidnappings and other abuses, according to rights groups and critics. They claim young men have no other options but to join the rebels because corrupt officials blacklist their families to extort bribes.

The fighters, in turn, blackmail corrupt officials who embezzle lavish funds from Moscow. The practise involves “sending a flash card” containing a video message in which bearded men demand a “jihad tax”.

Storming Grozny again

Ramzan Kadyrov was, perhaps, the least attentive man in the crowd of about 1,100 officials in an opulent Kremlin hall on December 4 during Putin’s annual address. The stocky 38-year-old Chechen leader fidgeted in his seat and constantly checked his phone.

Just hours before the Kremlin ceremony, a dozen Islamist fighters attacked Grozny, Chechnya’s newly-rebuilt capital. Shootouts in a publishing house, an empty school, and an office building killed 11 insurgents and 14 law enforcement officers.

A day after the attack, Kadyrov said the attackers’ families should be thrown out of Chechnya, their houses destroyed. At least six houses that belonged to relatives of the Grozny attackers have been burned down by masked men, Lokshina of Human Rights Watch said.

Kadyrov’s threats were not new to Chechens. During the second Chechen war, he led paramilitary squads known as kadyrovtsy  that soon gained notoriety for abducting, torturing and killing separatists and civilians suspected of aiding them, according to human rights groups and survivors.

A string of his political enemies and critics, including a former bodyguard, an investigative reporter, and a human rights activist have been gunned down in Chechnya, Moscow, Austria, and Dubai.

Kadyrov denied involvement in the contract-style killings.

Over the years, Kadyrov developed a penchant for luxury – he has a private zoo, race horses, and numerous sports cars. Pop stars, Hollywood actors and sportsmen show up at concerts held on his birthday.

His portraits are seen on billboards, government buildings and schoolchildren’s lapel pins; while streets, schools, mosques and military units are named after his father and mother.

Whatever he does is breaking news on Chechen television – he is shown threatening rebels and corrupt officials, boxing with his ministers, welcoming foreign dignitaries,and bestowing money, apartments and cars upon average Chechens.

Some say Kadyrov’s lifestyle and political ways make him look like an eccentric sovereign, not a public official on the Kremlin payroll. 

“Today, Chechnya is a de facto independent state,” says Belkovsky. “Although formally [Kadyrov] shows loyalty to Putin and formally Chechnya is part of Russia.”

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