Kadyrov and Putin clash over ‘day after’ Chechnya

Tensions are growing between the president of the Caucasian republic and Moscow. The main reason for the disagreement is said to be information from the FSB services about the frequent negotiations not agreed with the Kremlin between Kadyrov, who has been ill for some time, and the monarchies of the Golgo to determine the future of his assets and the security of his family members.

Moscow (AsiaNews) - Tensions between the president of the Russian republic of Chechnya in the North Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin have been escalating in recent months.

This has also been confirmed by some FSB service collaborators on the ‘Storie Importanti’ website, who have also collected testimonies from local journalists and humanitarian activists.

According to these sources, the main reason for the disagreement between Kadyrov and Putin is information from the FSB services about the frequent negotiations of the head of Chechnya, not agreed with the Kremlin, to determine the future of his assets and the security of his family members, by contacting representatives of Muslim monarchies in the Middle East.

Kadyrov has been ill for some time, as everyone knows, and increasingly seriously, as also reported by journalists from Novaya Gazeta Evropa, due to his serious kidney and pancreas problems.

Given the increasing difficulty he has in speaking, it is clear that the disease is progressing inexorably, even if Kadyrov tries to mask it with frenetic media activity, but with increasingly long breaks in recent months, during which he disappears from the public eye for several days.

In January and February the Chechen president hardly ever appeared in front of the television cameras, and only in March did he explain his absence by talking about a ‘holiday period’.

‘There is no illness that has not been attributed to me’, he commented after his long absence, and in recent weeks Kadyrov has avoided making any big announcements, only publishing short videos of his “inspections” in various areas of the Caucasian republic, which are quite obviously “standby services” filmed in previous periods.

The Chechen dictator understands very well what the basis of his power is, and what his family could expect in the event of his death, and he also knows the price of guarantees and promises of protection from the federal centre in Moscow.

The uncertainty about the future of his twelve children, his official wife and the other women attributed to him, is leading Kadyrov to seek other reassurances in Muslim countries, with whose leaders he has long had very ‘fraternal’ relations, all in the shadow of Putin's eye, who has now apparently been informed of the details.

The Chechen president recently removed his eldest daughter, 26-year-old Ajšat, from her state positions. In 2020 she became deputy minister of culture of Chechnya, then minister and from 2023 deputy prime minister of the republic.

With the deterioration of relations with the Kremlin, Ajšat has reinvented herself as the owner of Chechnya's main export company, ‘Chechen Mineral Waters’, as revealed by the Verstka website.

The company was already in the hands of Kadyrov's family, first through the foundation in the name of Ramzan's father, the murdered former president Akhmat Kadyrov, and then through a couple of front men.

At the end of March, Ajšat's name was deleted from the register of legal persons, together with her other younger daughter Tabarik.

Another person who causes conflict with the central powers is the deputy Adam Delimkhanov, who represents Chechnya in the Moscow Duma and has always been one of the men closest to Kadyrov.

Since the beginning of 2025, Delimkhanov has categorically refused to participate in any meetings concerning internal affairs and law enforcement, and he himself informs the people who have access to his office that ‘at the highest levels’ it has been categorically decided that all Chechen leaders and strongmen must be excluded from sensitive issues, and in general they should make themselves as invisible as possible.

This conflict has also been noted by humanitarian activists, as stated by the representative of the Nijso movement, Ansar Dišni, who said that ’ it is clear that very strict limits have been imposed on Delimkhanov's activities’, who is said to be holed up in the President-Hotel in the centre of Moscow, the headquarters of the Kadyrovtsy in the Russian capital, where it seems that obscure manoeuvres are being plotted to adjust the balance of power to the advantage of the “Chechen family”.

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