The head of the "LPR" Leonid Pasechnik and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov awarded each other orders. The award ceremony was held in Grozny. The video was posted by RIA Novosti.
Kadyrov was awarded the title of "Hero of the LPR", Pasechnik received the Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov "for strengthening Russian statehood and a significant contribution to relations between Chechnya and the LPR." The ceremony was attended by the Secretary of the General Council of "United Russia" Andrey Turchak, he also received the order named after Akhmat Kadyrov "for the strengthening of Russian statehood."
Kadyrov, who received another award today, actively supports the war in Ukraine and all the statements of Vladimir Putin, commenting on them in his Telegram channel with 2.7 million subscribers. At the end of July, he announced that Putin had awarded him the Order of Alexander Nevsky "for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of the Chechen Republic and the effective solution of tasks of great national importance."
The head of Chechnya is famous for threatening the opposition, he also repeatedly threatened the family of the former judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Saidi Yangulbaev, as a result, some family members had to leave Russia. In addition, he instructed armed men to follow the lawyers of the “Team Against Torture”, who are defending Yangulbaev's wife, Zarema Musaeva. Kadyrov called the family "accomplices of terrorists" and urged them to detain, and in case of resistance – to "destroy" them all. In 2021, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a judge’s son, an employee of the Committee against Torture, said that “Kadyrov’s men kidnapped” about forty of his relatives living in the Chechen village of Goity and in Grozny.