Chechen leader's 16-year-old son named trustee at special forces university


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  • Monday, 29 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, September 28, 2023. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

(Reuters) - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that he named his teenage son, who was shown beating a prisoner in custody last year, a trustee of the Russian University of Special Forces named after President Vladimir Putin.

Adam Kadyrov, who turned 16 in November, was appointed last year as his father's top bodyguard and an observer in a new battalion that is part of Russia's defence ministry forces.

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