GUDERMES, Russia (Reuters) - He bounded into the marble-floored office, grinning like a TV game show host primed to crack his opening joke.
But the short, stocky Chechen with the closely cropped hair and trimmed beard is no joker. This is Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's prime minister, the most powerful man in the war-weary region and a figure loved and feared in almost equal measure.
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