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Loujaine Laamal

Loujaine is an MA student in geopolitics at the French Institute of Geopolitics, Paris. Her research focuses on the North Caucasus and Chechnya’s politics.

Analysis | How Kadyrov uses ‘the Path of Akhmat’ in sports to cement his rule in Chechnya

Sports is used by the Head of Chechnya to construct the republic’s history, present, and future.

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