Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov stands...

GUDERMES, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov stands 10 May 2007 next to an exotic fishes aquarium at his residence in Gudermes. Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov was inaugurated as Chechnya's president 05 April 2007 in a ceremony celebrating his near-total control of the southern Russian province. Kadyrov has been in de facto control since the death of his father, Akhmad Kadyrov, in a 2004 bomb attack. Kadryov was nominated for the post by President Vladimir Putin after he recently turned 30, the minimum age for holding the post. Among the Chechen population he is both feared and respected. Human rights organisations accuse him of personal involvement in disappearances and torture, some of the latter allegedly inflicted at a private prison at his home in Tsenteroi. AFP PHOTO / RUSLAN ALKHANOV (Photo credit should read RUSLAN ALKHANOV/AFP via Getty Images)