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Valery Dzutsati: Chechnya’s leader clashes with Kremlin over French politics

By Valery Dzutsati.

Published Nov. 5, 2020 at 4:14 am

Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov attends a signing ceremony following a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 14, 2019.

Photo by AFP

The dispute in France over freedom of speech and sacred Islamic symbols that has embroiled the country following a series of attacks there by Islamist radicals has had unexpected reverberations inside the Russian Federation (see EDM, November 2).